• fafferlicious@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    There’s a lot of people here unable to recognize how important attention span is for deep, meaningful learning.

    Way too many people saying “ATTENTION SPANS NOT INTELLIGENCE DUHMASSES” and failing short because they don’t have the attention span to think of implications of decreased attention span.

    Long term memory is built on repetition and attention. It is entirely plausible that short form media makes you stupider - by impacting your ability for deep learning

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      9 hours ago

      Imagine if your computer was extremely high spec, but could only run any process for a maximum of about 20 minutes. That would be… Just awful.

      That being said, it looks like this study is pretty flawed.