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57% of US teens have a short attention span

By | June 10, 2008, 6:14am PDT

Summary: Teens Parents Have a short attention span 57% 53% Communicate well 51 36 Present ideas clearly 45 34 Be creative 43 36 Write too fast and be careless 43 41 Use poor spelling and grammar 38 30 Take short cuts and not put effort into writing 37 35 Write better because they can revise and edit easily 30 17 Source: Pew Internet Project

Teens Parents
Have a short attention span 57% 53%
Communicate well 51 36
Present ideas clearly 45 34
Be creative 43 36
Write too fast and be careless 43 41
Use poor spelling and grammar 38 30
Take short cuts and not put effort
into writing		 37 35
Write better because they can
revise and edit easily		 30 17
Source: Pew Internet Project

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melekali 12th Jan 2009
...is this headline news? There's aren't many teenagers I have ever met or ever known (including my peers o so long ago) who have a long attention span.
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poorly labeled headers
ricochet2200 12th Jan 2009
If you go into the article, you will find the column headers more explicitly labeled.

Parents(responding about their children)
Teens(responding about students in general)
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RE: 57% of US teens have a short attention span
cchristensen@... 12th Jan 2009
Extremely misleading headline & poorly presented table! The actual heading of the data in the table you presented above is :
Teen Views: How Computers Impact Writing
The question asked was:
Do you think using a computer for writing makes students more or less likely to???
The choices given were: More Likely, Less Likely, Makes no Difference. The data you've presented is the for Makes no Difference.
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RE: 57% of US teens have a short attention span
bagwoli 12th Jan 2009
I guess we know who set up this table then, don't we.......

And I'm sure one would get a response back such as, "It's no big deal. It's not like it's something critical." And it still won't get fixed.

"A former member of the younger generation, now over the hill"
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melekali 12th Jan 2009
...is this headline news? There's aren't many teenagers I have ever met or ever known (including my peers o so long ago) who have a long attention span.

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