This study is a little questionable. A comment from /r/science: > Toddlers were taken to a room they had never been to > before and were given at mos

This study is a little questionable. A comment from /r/science: > Toddlers were taken to a room they had never been to > before and were given at most 30 minutes to play with > the toys. They switched toys more often when there > were 16 vs. 4 toys and played with more toys overall. > Duration of play will naturally be an inverse of that > - and if the kids wanted to check out all the toys > first before deciding to which one to use, which you > would expect them to do in a new environment, that's > naturally going to skew the statistics. The conclusion > that they were more distracted by other toys in the 16 > toy condition is unsurprising since all the toys were > novel. But it would seem rare that toddlers would be > given 16 new toys all at once and it's certainly > possible that if all the toys were familiar, they might > engage for longer and more in-depth types of play with > certain toys regardless of how many were present. And also apparently the sample size was around 11 participants. Wouldn't jump to the conclusion the headline of this article seems to draw just yet, without further evidence.