Originally Posted By: saxgentleman67
The average attention span is down from what had been 25 seconds 20 years ago to just a few seconds.


If that's correct, and I hae no reason to doubt it, then I'm actually quite shocked if it was only 25 seconds 20 years ago.

I see people scrolling aimlessly through social media, often not stopping to look at anything or to read anything. Vacant. Mesmerised.

I watch documentaries.
All of the sentences are short.
They have very few commas.
Everything is in tiny sized bites.


I bought some bread rolls a while back. "Two bags with eight in each" I said to the cashier. She gave a slightly crestfallen look and asked "You don't happen to know how many in total do you?"

What I find most shocking is that I imagine most people can do more than those suggest, but so often they're spoon fed to the point that they simply stop thinking.

Conversely, we get crime dramas with so many threads that an intelligent thinking person can become overloaded with information, and I wonder how many people follow the plot and how many just sit mesmerised until the hero magics up a solution from nowhere.

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