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Stop Smearing Goldfish: That Attention Span Statistic is Dubious

Sword and the Script

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 most technology companies, it’s the opposite: selling software that automates repetitive tasks. Smearing goldfish.