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My PhD thesis produced an instrument for measuring attention span: https://invisible.college/attention/dissertation.html https://invisible.college/attention/dis
by toomim 3y ago
My PhD thesis produced an instrument for measuring attention span: https://invisible.college/attention/dissertation.html https://invisible.college/attention/dissertation.html
It is a lot like the author theorized— it uses Mechanical Turk to measure how long people will attend to a task given an incentive.
Anyone interested should be sure to check out this survival graph, that depicts the length of time people will attend to a task, given characteristics of the task and the value of the goal they are trying to achieve: https://invisible.college/attention/dissertation/survival.png https://invisible.college/attention/dissertation/survival.pn...
- amelius 3y agoI would personally place a non focusable window on top of that annoying gif.
- kaba0 3y agoIs there even a definition of attention span? I was under the impression that it is an ill-defined term in the first place: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-38896790.amp https://www.bbc.com/news/health-38896790.amp (Sorry, haven’t yet checked out your work)