i like ross (d)'s point that even if the research behind the shrinking attentoin spans cliam is spurious...it must be true. i didn't find the debunking of it in the BBC article convincing. all this has made me think more about what an attention span is, and how curiously difficult it is to measure (the bubble pops as soon as you look at it!)
I think the difficulty is that we're often comparing 'time spent on something fun' (eg: video games) with 'time spent forcing oneself to pay attention to a boring thing my employer is making me do', as if those two are equivalent?
yeah, 'my attention span on tiktok is through the roof'. a bit like skills in our world, this stuff needs some rigour. even the experts quoted in the various articles on this sound imprecise to me.
i like ross (d)'s point that even if the research behind the shrinking attentoin spans cliam is spurious...it must be true. i didn't find the debunking of it in the BBC article convincing. all this has made me think more about what an attention span is, and how curiously difficult it is to measure (the bubble pops as soon as you look at it!)
I think the difficulty is that we're often comparing 'time spent on something fun' (eg: video games) with 'time spent forcing oneself to pay attention to a boring thing my employer is making me do', as if those two are equivalent?
yeah, 'my attention span on tiktok is through the roof'. a bit like skills in our world, this stuff needs some rigour. even the experts quoted in the various articles on this sound imprecise to me.