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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by idopmstuff on Monday July 24, 2023 @07:35PM (#36855708)
I'm reading a book on sleep training a baby that's ~20 years old, I think, and it's like 75% unnecessary. I attribute it to the fact that when it was out, there were fewer books/other media competing for attention, plus it wasn't easy to go find additional information by Googling, so people attributed value to extra, borderline-useless info in books.
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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by d3ad1ysp0rk on Monday July 24, 2023 @07:53PM (#36855865)
"sleep training a baby that's ~20 years old" this book sounds hilarious
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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by vacuity on Monday July 24, 2023 @10:21PM (#36857086)
"Two pitbulls attack girl returning home from school"

Wow, they grow up so fast!

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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by nunez on Monday July 24, 2023 @09:06PM (#36856464)
That still happens today. Gotta have enough filler to publish!
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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by prawn on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @01:00AM (#36858105)
The method we leaned on (with success) was a one-page PDF shared by another parent. So many books of this sort are a bullet-point list fleshed out to justify the sale price, and little else. Case studies and history and whatever else.
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