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Staff pick #6: What happened to our attention spans?

The Big Story

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Is Attention Getting Worse?

David Frum: Can you quantify for us at all how our attention spans have dwindled in the past couple of years? "We track that thing over time. And we can only get to the underlying reasons if we actually understand what's happened," he says. The average teenager now believes they can follow six or seven forms of media at the same time, Dr Frum adds.

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