According to BBC World, which is happily running in the background, Danish researchers have determined that girls have an attention span twice as long as that of boys.
According to the study, the average six-year-old boy has an attention span of about ten minutes.
Damn, to be six again!
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“Squirrels”—Taken from someplace, but our family motto for the rapid shortening of our attention span.
jwb
Comment by Jimbo — February 11, 2005 @ 7:20 pm