The Work of Pre- and Post-Literacy
Are we circling back to a dumbed-down past we never really left?
A growing chorus of researchers earns their bones warning us that always-pitiful humanzee attention spans are dwindling. Tests of reading comprehension, numeracy, and reasoning skills appear to have peaked about a decade ago before slipping steadily across many countries and age groups. John Burn-Murdoch, writing recently…
