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My attention span is too low to read the article. Can someone summarize it?
by sixQuarks 3y ago
My attention span is too low to read the article. Can someone summarize it?
- doublerabbit 3y agoI would, but laziness is on the increase and it's too much effort to type.
- sixQuarks 3y agoI was going to write a comment trying to motivate you to not be lazy, but procrastination is also up and I’ll just do it later.
- jgtrosh 3y agoThe author tries to find specific evidence to answer whether individual people overall had their attention span reduced, in the time period where internet + social media became widespread. They go to some effort to define terms and review existing literature. They do not end up with a specific way to test for attention span, and they do not find definitive answers in existing literature. However, every thing, even if somewhat flawed, points to some forms of reduced attention spans. More interestingly, each element of the question is kinda questioned and widened during the article (“is there such a thing as attention span?”, “is each measure of shorter time spent on an activity actually a measure of shorter attention span?”) Imo what the intro touches on but fails to be explored in sufficient detail is what role gratification plays. I think so much time is spent on quantifying existing results, that when trying to design a good new test not enough time is spent applying game theory. I feel like there could be some good ways to properly quantify the link between gratification and attention, but I don't have the game theory / psychology bagage to go any further.
- sixQuarks 3y agoCan someone summarize the above comment, attention span still too low to digest in one go