Human attention span shorter than goldfish

You need to pay attention to this. The question is, can you?

New brain research from Microsoft finds the human attention span is down to a mere eight seconds — one second less than a goldfish.

The study which surveyed 2,000 Canadians and looked at electroencephalograms (EEG) of 112 more, points out that 15 years ago, our attention span was 12 seconds … but by 2013 it had fallen by four seconds.