Stop Smearing Goldfish: That Attention Span Statistic is Dubious
Sword and the Script
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
All those references lead back to a 2015 report by the Consumer Insights team of Microsoft Canada, who surveyed 2,000 Canadians and also studied the brain activity of 112 people as they carried out various tasks. For good measure, I searched Statistic Brain today and there’s no mention of the word “goldfish” on the website.
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