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How much, if at all, have attention spans declined since 2000? My friend, a professor of English, says his college Freshmen struggle reading anything over short-story length, which was not the case 15 years ago. Do we have evidence that fewer people can understand complex stories/ideas?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/askscience

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