{"id":49821,"date":"2015-05-15T21:30:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T21:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/humans_have_shorter_attention_span_than_goldfish_thanks_to_smartphones\/"},"modified":"2015-05-15T21:30:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T21:30:46","slug":"humans_have_shorter_attention_span_than_goldfish_thanks_to_smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49821","title":{"rendered":"Humans have shorter attention span than goldfish, thanks to smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The average human&#8217;s attention span is&#8230; oh look, a bird!<\/p>\n<p>According to scientists, the age of smartphones has left humans with such a short attention span even a goldfish can hold a thought for longer.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers surveyed 2,000 participants in Canada and studied the brain activity of 112 others using electroencephalograms.<\/p>\n<p>The results showed the average human attention span has fallen from 12 seconds in 2000, or around the time the mobile revolution began, to eight seconds. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/science\/science-news\/11607315\/Humans-have-shorter-attention-span-than-goldfish-thanks-to-smartphones.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average human&#8217;s attention span is&#8230; oh look, a bird! According to scientists, the age of smartphones has left humans with such a short attention span even a goldfish can hold a thought for longer. Researchers surveyed 2,000 participants in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49821\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,433,175,94,129,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-social-networking","category-anthropology","category-blogging-the-internet","category-psychology","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}