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Stephen Downes

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This is one of those articles that tracks down the source of a popular conception only to find that it doesn't exist. Moreover, "the idea of an 'average attention span' is pretty meaningless. It's very much task-dependent. How much attention we apply to a task will vary depending on what the task demand is."

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