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Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com 📝 ft.com/jbm| Bluesky Social
Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com 📝 ft.com/jbm| Bluesky Social
For such an important topic, there’s remarkably little long-term data on attention spans, focus etc. But one source that has consistently tracked this is the Monitoring The Future survey, which finds a steep rise in the % of people struggling to concentrate or learn new things.| Bluesky Social
NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline? Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s What should we make of this? https://www.ft.com/content/a8016c64-63b7-458b-a371-e0e1c54a13fc| Bluesky Social
Data across countries and ages reveal a growing struggle to concentrate, and declining verbal and numerical reasoning| www.ft.com
After more than 37,000 votes on our shortlist, we're pleased to announce that the Oxford Word of the Year for 2024 is 'brain rot'.| Oxford University Press
