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Stop Smearing Goldfish: That Attention Span Statistic is Dubious

Sword and the Script

And when I contact the listed sources – the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the US National Library of Medicine, and the Associated Press – neither can find any record of research that backs up the stats.”. For good measure, I searched Statistic Brain today and there’s no mention of the word “goldfish” on the website.