In fact, we now generally lose concentration after eight seconds — that's a shorter attention
span than a goldfish.
That is a second
less than a goldfish can concentrate on a thought while swimming around a fish bowl.
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.
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.
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.
Smartphones and tablets have officially rendered us able to focus for less
time than goldfish.
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.
There are WAY worse things that you could be feeding to your
child than goldfish and spagetti - o's.
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»)...
Non-parrot owners, in contrast, perceived parrots to have better companionship
qualities than goldfish, but no where near the standard they perceived dogs to offer.
We all know that thanks to technology, humans have an attention span
shorter than a goldfish's — do you really want the readers that usually only skim your pages to take nothing else away from that article?
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.
With the average human attention span now just eight seconds (that's
less than a goldfish), it's more difficult than ever to capture the...
Did you know the average human's attention span is shorter
than a goldfish's?
According to a study, in a multi-device world, the average human's attention span is eight seconds; less
than a goldfish's.
Thankfully, only a small few, 1.7 %, feel they have attention spans shorter
than a goldfish.
That's right, humans now have a shorter attention span
than goldfish.
Millennials have been accused of possessing shorter attention spans
than goldfish.