We have attention spans of about 10 minutes before we lose interest and tune out.
But five year olds have very short attention spans so that would last about 20 seconds.
High-flying finesse offenses may thrill shortened attention spans, but can it truly be called football?
But he never got the traction he wanted because "on Twitter, people have short attention spans, " he says.
Dr Linnell also suggests that this urban disruption of concentration could be linked to a reduction in attention spans.
The internet may not have a sense of humor, and perhaps it encourages people to have short attention spans.
Memories and attention spans are short among legislators and officials in every administration.
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And competition for attention spans is even higher thanks to app stores, Facebook games, Netflix, and endless-channel television.
"They're short films for short attention spans, " chirped 'Sesame Street' star Big Bird.
The sevens game is attractive to Americans with short attention spans and long-held views that scoring a lot is good.
Yet his diagnosis sees dangers to liberal societies from "vetocracy, " banal social movements, extremist politics, short attention spans, disorder and alienation.
Boomer bosses have trouble understanding their Gen X and Gen Y employees with their short attention spans and notorious lack of loyalty.
But maybe short attention spans were just a function of bad technology.
That requires long-term commitments in a world where political attention spans are usually short and where no government can easily bind its successors.
But distinctive mobile usage patterns have emerged that accommodate low attention spans, multiple input options for search terms and presentation of rich content.
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For better or worse, I have become attuned to the challenge of capturing the reader's attention in an era of micro-short attention spans.
Some people worry about what the new media will do not only to democracy but also to brains, thoughts, grammar and attention spans.
The increase of Internet music piracy and the decrease of consumers' attention spans have been two of the factors blamed for for lackluster sales.
If ever there were a time to be floating rumors, this is the time, while attention spans are short and trading volume is thin.
Instead, it may be rewiring our brains, wrecking our attention spans and replacing contemplative consumption of information with a frenetic search for mental fast food.
And besides, audiences with short attention spans are bigger than ever.
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Long, overly qualified statements weighed down with technical jargon can't compete in the wireless digital maelstrom, where attention spans are limited and audiences are fickle.
If the hypotheses reported in the original studies had stood the test of time, then such short journalistic attention spans would not be a problem.
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In Healy's opinion, electronic gaming at a young age can lead to shorter attention spans, a lack of internal motivation, difficulty with problem solving and a lack of creativity.
In every age from the caves right on through the second World War, it worked for men to take big risks, have short attention spans and be driven by ego.
And this, the age of the de-evolution of meaning, we're ironically working toward a deeper superficiality, not only to combat the short attention spans of young people, but to hook the wiser.
But what distinguishes the current incarnation of slow TV is that it flies in the face of conventional wisdom about modern audiences demanding immediacy, their attention spans sapped by the ever-moving online era.
Fair enough, but Attention.com has a section designed for health care professionals, and it lets users test their attention spans with a computerized test similar to some used by psychologists to diagnose ADD.
This action is both a commentary on our Twitter-addled attention spans and a classic embodiment of a Wall Street law so old that Hammurabi himself may have written it: Buy on the rumor, sell on the news.
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