Sentence examples for measuring attention spans from inspiring English sources

And secondly – the psychologist they spoke to said there are problems with the idea of measuring attention spans in the first place.

Afterward, the subjects' reading skills were tested; those who had played the action-oriented video game were able to read faster and more accurately, and subsequently did better on other tests measuring attention span.

She may, in an age that measures attention spans in nanoseconds, start writhing in frustration before we are even halfway through the chapter devoted to spending a penny on mustard and cress seeds or making a miniature garden in a china bowl.

The older children also sat a computerised test designed to measure attention span.

In other, non-SOPA related news, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's latest installation measured viewers' attentions spans in an unconventional way, a blank recursive Google image search threw up the universe, umbrellas, and rage comics.

In comparison, scientists measure the attention span of a goldfish at nine seconds.

Participants still scored poorly in measures of attention span and reaction times, the journal Sleep reported.

Their attention spans are measured in nanoseconds.

Agree with their cause or not, theirs is an unusual record of persistence in an age when attention spans are often measured in seconds.

These tests, Lew-Williams says, "use boredom as a tool" to measure the child's attention span.

Attention spans are short.