Good topic, discussion, and especially good to hear data. I'd speculate that the most critical negative of increasingly short attention spans, increased pusuit of immediate gratification, and decreased ability to focus, is a reversion to shallow, context vacuous, short sighted, intuition/emotion as a primary analytical tool, and a decline in deeper, full context, long range, critical thinking/rationality. I suspect the most primary factor out of many in the U.S. is an education system that encourages that reversion to more primitive thinking modes. As for the solution ...competition/free markets in schooling.
Good topic, discussion, and especially good to hear data. I'd speculate that the most critical negative of increasingly short attention spans, increased pusuit of immediate gratification, and decreased ability to focus, is a reversion to shallow, context vacuous, short sighted, intuition/emotion as a primary analytical tool, and a decline in deeper, full context, long range, critical thinking/rationality. I suspect the most primary factor out of many in the U.S. is an education system that encourages that reversion to more primitive thinking modes. As for the solution ...competition/free markets in schooling.