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throwaway2037 • yesterday at 1:19 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

    > now that attention spans are so short
Oh please, this is Internet nonsense. Google tells me:

    > Psychologists and neuroscientists find no structural decline in the human brain's ability to focus. Sustained attention limits remain largely unchanged.

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WelkinFolk • yesterday at 1:37 PM

I and pretty much everyone I know has repeatedly mentioned how difficult of a time they're having reading books, code (software eng. friends), or even watching the first half of a movie without feeling the need to open their phones and scrolling Instagram.

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