![]() ![]() 7 Previous generations felt their attention and focus were getting worse too:Ī good discussion of the sceptical case – that attention isn’t getting worse – can be heard here:, as accessed 10 January 2020. Roy Baumeister, Willpower: Why Self Control is the Secret to Success (New York: Penguin, 2012). That’s why I haven’t drawn on them for any of the arguments or conclusions in this book. (This is part of a much wider crisis in replication in the social sciences.) I discussed these criticisms in detail in Toronto with Professor Michael Inzlicht. There’s now a huge debate over his experiments, amid claims that they can’t be replicated. ![]() 6–7 he is responsible for some of the most famous experiments ever carried out in the social sciences: ![]() I go through the evidence for this in Chapter Four. 6 Activities that require longer forms of focus – like reading a book – have been in freefall for years: Thank you to Catherine Best, who proof-read these notes for me. The page references refer to the British edition in the book and vary very slightly from the US edition. These are additional endnotes, which go beyond the endnotes in the book itself. ![]()
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