Sentences with phrase «being than a goldfish»

Christopher Reeve, Kevin Kline, Michael J. Fox and Mary Tyler Moore, among others, all made their way to Capitol Hill to testify in support of increased federal funding of hESCR (during her congressional testimony on behalf of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Ms. Moore famously said human embryos have «no more resemblance to a human being than a goldfish»)...

Not exact matches

A 2013 study found the average attention span of people is 8 seconds, one second less than that of a goldfish.

«Research suggests that there's been a drop from 12 to eight seconds... shorter than the attention of the average goldfish, which is nine seconds.»

Although several sources on the web state the «goldfish statistic,» the idea that the average American has an attention span of eight seconds, one second less than the attention span of a goldfish, this LinkedIn article disproves that, using research to state that there are a variety of attention spans, with adult attention spans reaching up to 20 minutes.

May we have your attention, please: The average American attention span is now one second shorter than that of a goldfish.

The other project was an internal startup called Goldfish that was building a software platform that would have the potential to someday become an open marketplace on which retailers other than Target might list goods for sale, sources said.

That is a second less than a goldfish can concentrate on a thought while swimming around a fish bowl.

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I'm not sure if that's much easier or quicker than cutting out goldfish shapes.

But for those of us with memories a little better than the average goldfish, it has been probably just as hard as for the player himself as we know just how good Jack can be.

But as we can see, from the way transfers are reported, football fans are treated as having less memory than goldfish by the mass media, the bloggettas and indeed the whole Commentariat.

Other snack replacements O'Brien recommends include real chocolate chips instead of M&M s, pretzels rather than chips or colored goldfish crackers, and plain yogurt with fruit or sprinkles instead of artificially colored yogurts.

It's just so much easier to toss into the car some prepackaged snacks (from Whole Foods, sure, but little better nutritionally than Goldfish crackers) and a Honest Kids juice pouch than it is to come up with something better, but maybe more labor intensive, like sliced fruit or a homemade muffin.

Betta fish are a better bet as pets than goldfish.

It's easy to make in less than 10 minutes plus it uses goldfish crackers that have been dropped on the floor....

On the other hand, recall percentages for other brands (such as McDonald's, M&M's and Pepperidge Farm Goldfish) were relatively high, but still lower than their corresponding recognition rates.

I also snack on the free Goldfish and M&M s in my office more often than I've previously admitted to myself.

If you're reading this then that means you, unlike the majority of the internet, don't have an attention span shorter than a goldfish.

This recipe was so much easier than my recipe for goldfish.

Before long he is bigger than the garbage can, the bathtub and lastly the outside goldfish pond where Angus has kept him hidden.

In fact, we now generally lose concentration after eight seconds — that's a shorter attention span than a goldfish.

According to a study, in a multi-device world, the average human's attention span is eight seconds; less than a goldfish's.

People have less of an attention span than a goldfish, according to a Microsoft study from 2015 which shows that a goldfish can stay interested in something for nine seconds while people, on average, clock in at 8 seconds, which is down from 12 seconds in 2000 and getting shorter all the time.

Long story short: The average human attention span is about eight seconds — that's shorter than the attention span of a goldfish!

A study conducted by Microsoft revealed the average attention span of Gen - Y learners is just eight seconds, shorter than that of a goldfish which can remain focused for nine seconds.

As the study's report indicated, that's one second shorter than the attention span of the average goldfish.

We love our animals, our little balls of hair that are our faithful companions (especially dogs, more than cats or goldfish, of course!).

This is my first pet other than a goldfish as a kid, so I was very excited and did a lot of research on getting everything ready for him to come home and be comfortable.

According to the 2015 - 2016 National Pet Owners Survey, conducted by the American Pet Products Association, there are more than 95 million freshwater fish — with common goldfish by far the...

According to the 2015 - 2016 National Pet Owners Survey, conducted by the American Pet Products Association, there are more than 95 million freshwater fish — with common goldfish by far the most popular species — and 9 million saltwater fish kept as pets in the United States.

There is, however, a lot more to goldfish and koi than meets the eye — especially the untrained eye of most recreational pond owners.

But with our attention span having fallen below eight seconds, which is lower than that of the common goldfish, enlightenment may only come as a result of a search engine.

In fact, a recent study reported that the average human's attention span is shorter than that of a goldfish.

It's got that natural feel and it might also be more forgiving than a light coloured carpet (paw prints and smooshed goldfish crackers, heh heh heh.)