'Results indicated that students who read on print were superior in their comprehension to screen-reading peers, particularly in their ability to sequence detail and reconstruct the plot in chronological order." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/25/skim-reading-new-normal-maryanne-wolf?CMP=share_btn_tw …
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Above-linked story confirms something I've been noticing during the last ten years on social media: often I'll link to a story, and the majority of commenters either clearly didn't read it or read it quickly, and want to know why I didn't mention X when I clearly did.
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Two or three times a week, I'll post a link to a story and have somebody immediately complain that it fails to mention X or that it makes some sort of absolute statement about Y, when neither thing is true, and reading a bit more slowly would've prevented the misperception.
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I try to compose Tweets carefully, and will often delete stuff even if it's already been RTd because I noticed a mistake or missing word, but sometimes I wonder what the point is, because some responses completely misread what was plainly stated.
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I wish that stories had some kind of built-in way of detecting and reporting whether people commenting on them actually read them, and if so, how long they spent reading them.
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That way we could look at a receipt on a response, and ignore any that were posted without reading the thing being linked to, or that skimmed a long story in less than two minutes. There's no point having a conversation with someone who would do that.
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I say all this fully aware that I have no control over where society is headed thanks to tech. We're becoming a culture of skimmers and people who comment without reading. We tell ourselves it's because we're "too busy." Doing what? Futzing with our phones all day. I do it, too.
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It seems undeniable to me that we're collectively losing our ability to concentrate on a text of any kind, be it written or audiovisual, without getting impatient and needing additional, outside stimulus. Tech has rewired our brains. Can anything be done?
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You really could have used an editor on this tweet, Matt. I started losing interest around the 163rd character.
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