Toward Ecosophy

Another mental discipline worth acquiring is that of not uncritically accepting glib assertions at face value, even (or perhaps especially) when they agree with your prejudices. The claim that "the average adult American has an attention span of eight seconds" sounds extremely implausible to me... Firstly, I doubt that the average American really struggles to tie their shoelaces without being distracted. More importantly, if by "average" you mean "mean", then the distribution must be quite odd, and both the median and mode must be quite a bit smaller. I would really want to see some very robust evidence for such a claim.

Dunc