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AndrewCrotty
Community Member
It's refreshing to read an article that addresses the attention span myth (humans and goldfish alike). I have seen too many presentations that start with a 'shocking' statistics slide on the decline of human attention. I have never subscribed to this belief. This was a very useful and well written article that offers important insight into what is really going on. I realised at the end I actually own Julies book but for shame, I have left it gathering dust on my desk, I better dust it off and catch up.
MattMcGuire-280
6 years agoCommunity Member
I agree with you Andrew. That 8-second attention span is a ridiculous myth that gets perpetuated all the time and on it's face is patently absurd. When I hear a presenter throw that out (or some other demonstrably false statistic), I tune out the remainder of the presentation. I don't have much of an attention span for shocking, made up statistics.