Talk:Attention span

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This is in conflict with another article
Screenager Wijiwang 22:23, 23 July 2005 (UTC);

Span of Attention Span, eventually by age?
How long is the average attention span? I've heard a minute 30, or 30 seconds or 15 even. I think the article should say what the commonly accepted one is (if there is differing opinion) and state why others are considered Gohst 14:19, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
 * An article like this can at least give some clues about age related to attention span. Like Attention span = age-years x 3 to 5 minutes; 6 years x 3 to 5 minutes = 18 to 30 minutes attention span. --SvenAERTS (talk) 17:34, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Irony
Does anyone else think that the length of this article is ironic? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Musungu jim (talk • contribs) 19:52, August 31, 2006 (UTC)

Music psychology
It was mentioned that television viewing may result in a reduction in one's attention span.

I would like to pose the hypothesis that listening to specific types of music distracting to the listener would reduce their concentration and attention span as well. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 220.255.54.120 (talk • contribs) 05:41, September 25, 2006 (UTC)

1 second long attention span, pardon?
The second paragraph of the "attention span" article states that, while on the computer, people have a 1 second long attention span. The very fact that I could type this response refutes that. Furthermore, I can't seem to find any sources that legitimately support this allegation. Instead of a "citation needed" for that statement, maybe it should be taken down altogether.

Does anyone else agree? Maybe I just can't find the facts that support what's said, but it seems like vandalism to me. Thanks.

Gnarled Fingers 23:31, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

my (admittedly) unhelpful edit was remoevd... but really now..
well.. the portion titled: "Attention Spans of People in Sports" is quite bad in every respect. this is not my personal opinion, it's just poorly written and of little to no use to anyone reading this.74.13.201.10 (talk) 03:54, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Lincoln–Douglas debates of 1858
The information included in this article about the Lincoln–Douglas debates of 1858 is just plain wrong. First of all, the debates ran for three hours, not the eight or ten hours that this author mistakenly claims. They also weren't one solid 'thing', since they were a series of speeches. From the perspective of attention research, at the very minimum, you would have to count each separate speech as a separate thing. This means that the absolute maximum length you'd be considering was 90 minutes -- a range of lecture length familiar to nearly all modern students.

There is no evidence that the "sustained attention" to the debates was what modern researchers would call sustained attention. In fact, the cultural rules would have allowed the audience to get up and leave, or to whisper quietly to their neighbors, or to stare vacantly into space, whenever they wanted -- all signs of inattention.

The subject of the debates was of literally life-and-death importance to many of the listeners, which also matters. The audience was self-selected for the people who were the most interested in the topic, which was essentially "Will my country be destroyed by civil war next year?" A modern equivalent might be watching television reporting around 9/11 -- and there were certainly some "modern" people with supposedly "decreased" attention spans who were absolutely glued to their televisions for many hours at a time during the crisis.

In short, while the named source does contain the claims reported here, these claims are so obviously and demonstrably false that they deserve no mention. I have, accordingly, reduced the claim to facts that won't actually embarrass the author of the claims (even though he may deserve the embarrassment) and won't mislead our readers, such as the fact that the author believes attention spans have been reduced. WhatamIdoing (talk) 07:34, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

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