A 2016 study claimed that the average person’s attention span was 8 seconds, down from 12 seconds in 2000. The same study estimated the attention span of a goldfish at 9 seconds. While the science behind the study may be suspect, we can all agree that it’s hard to get people to read anything longer than a Tweet, much less a multi-page manifesto.
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