No.
The study found a correlation between people who regularly consume short-form content and those who scored low on tests measuring impulse control and attention span.
If you have less self control, you’re more likely to consume more short-form video content (duh). But correlation is not causation and the study is not proving that more short term video content is causing less self control. It probably is, but that’s not the finding of the study as the title and some of the quotes imply.
also, short attention span ≠ low intelligence, as the title implies
I can see how a short attention span could foster behavior that leads to lower intelligence. Will be hard to prove scientifically though.
Further, self-control and attention span are not measures of intelligence.
You can be restrained and/or have a long attention span and still not be intelligent.
They did not in fact find that the shorts are making you dumber. They said it affects your attention span.
Ironically I found this out in the first sentence of the article and then stopped reading.
Yeah I can’t imagine it making me dumber. Most of my shorts are interesting scientific facts/discoveries. Or CSS tips and tricks.
Attention span I can definitely believe.
This may shock you, but most people watch really dumb fucking shit instead of scientific facts.
Then they were already dumb.
Short attention span correlates with low intelligence but short attention span doesn’t cause low intelligence.
I can’t remember the whole thing but there is a sort of pseudo research paper that got published exactly to demonstrate the difference between correlation and causation. In the paper they “found” that yellow teeth cause cancer.
Of course smoking causes yellow teeth, and cancer. The yellow teeth are correlated, but do not cause.
You could do this with anything. Most cancer patients spend a lot of time indoors (hospitals) => being indoors now leading cause for cancer!
Statistical correlation is very useful if used correctly — to lead you where to do proper technical research and not quantitative research. 👍
Not shocking at all. I was only speaking for myself.
So do stupid fucken click bait headlines.
That’s Dexerto for you, business as usual for them.
Those things are ADHD honeypots. I have never experienced something that is so close to hard drugs before.
I mean this doesn’t establish a causal link at all, just confirms the obvious fact that someone with attention issues is more likely to consume short form content.
There’s a lot of people here unable to recognize how important attention span is for deep, meaningful learning.
Way too many people saying “ATTENTION SPANS NOT INTELLIGENCE DUHMASSES” and failing short because they don’t have the attention span to think of implications of decreased attention span.
Long term memory is built on repetition and attention. It is entirely plausible that short form media makes you stupider - by impacting your ability for deep learning
They said the same thing about Sesame Street in the 1970’s
I turned out all right.
Ah, you too live in a trash can and crave cookies?
WOW! 3 downvotes for saying I’m all right.
And no stated reason. Could be a troll farm. A Russian troll farm, or maybe a Christian troll farm. They don’t like me thinking too. It might be my EX, we still don’t get along.
I could even be Nestlé. My DECADES-long boycott is finally working.
It started way back in the days of cable. I remember how jarring it was to see a music video on MTV that kept changing camera shots. I was like, “you don’t even get enough time to get a good look at the band or the scene.” Then it got worse, way worse.
They have been programming people for short attention spans forever now and I hate it.
I mean… looking at Shorts and Reels it’s definitely not making anyone smarter. There’s 0 value to it.
No shit
I’m sure the title here is accurate summary of the conclusion of the study and I don’t need to even check because as a person who doesn’t conscume short-form media this confirms something I already know to be true about myself.
Curious about memes as well.
eh. good luck. i am already
