Mass media and the internet have caused people’s attention spans to get shorter. However, the overall effect has been positive: while people are less able to focus on one thing, they more than make up for it with an enhanced ability to sort through large quantities of information and find what’s important.
Prompt suggests that mass media has attenuated the people's ability to provide attention for brief amount of time, rather it has helped them to compensate it with an adept to organize large things based on the priority and importance. It is certain that human are very much balanced species. The skill that we posses are definitely unique than most species. Prompt mentions one of the behavior that human posses, and certainly is true for the issue that is suggested in the prompt.
Firstly, in current world mass media provides copious information than people can imbibe in. In this apparent situation it is not expected of an individual to go through each and every information as it doesnt make sense for an individual. Also human brain has their limits on understanding and taking in the information at one particular time. In recent studies, it is given in that the brain uses its only 11 to 20 percent of its capacity. 11 being the average and 20 being the most rarest case. This study went further to identify how much capacity a person can hold if they were thrown against multiple information in a minutes of time, and based on the results, out of 800 words, an average human is capable to store only 180 words and remember only 50-60 when tried to recall. Certainly this limitation affects the people's focus and attention span time.
Though capacity is not the only factor, it is also depends on the topic, each person has their own frequency of likings. If they hear contents outside their interests they tend to lose the interest and hence results and attention span. They can focus for very less amount of time if the topic is not their genre, on the contrary if the topic is one of their favorites they can go for days with same content and not lose their attention (there are exceptions with the limits). To illustrate, while studying for GRE test, I tend to lose my attention in very much first paragraph of the Reading comprehension, in fact it confuses if I move further, which clearly shows that if topic is not of an interest people tend to lose attention.
Secondly, Human has this skill or processing where if one of the behavior is not being utilized in an appropriate quantity - in this case providing attention - Human are inclined to, unconsciously or consciously, to balance out this one sided behavior. In other words, it compensates in another behavior. To enlighten with an example, if people are, with misfortune, blind or affected with auditory glands, and let's say are not able to see or hear respectively, it is seen in most cases that they are very much skilled with other sense like a blind person is very good with 6th sense or a vibe that feels around him to identify or remember things such as steps, edge of side walk in order avoid mishaps, while deaf people are good at observing thing, such as lips while normal people talk, or their hand gestures or body language in order understand cues for the communication. Similar way when mass media throws bulk of information, they are forced to sort information based on multiple things - interests, importance, priority, urgency etc - and this helps them focus only on the part which matches with their interests and frequency to take in information that are relevant to them.
It is clear that human tend to get bored easily in now a days with any irrelevant or uninteresting things being available to them, but to compensate the attention with sorting out things based on priority is equally important, even if there are less contents as it helps them be organized and if time runs out they may have already been covered important information. But at the same time it is good to have both, an attention span given to each information to get the maximum gist out of them and understand, but based on the priority or importance so that the end results turns out to be beneficial for individual, either in personal skill improvements which can be utilised in any other situation such as at the workplace.
To concluded, human are very clever species for their time, but that also points out that they are very negligent. But with what they have with the information in their bucket they can take out most meaning if they equally train themselves to sort information based on the importance as well as give brief amount of attention to understand it correctly.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'peoples'' or 'people's'?
Suggestion: peoples'; people's
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
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Line 5, column 241, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
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Line 5, column 481, Rule ID: MOST_SUPERLATIVE[1]
Message: Use only 'rarest' (without 'most') when you use the superlative.
Suggestion: rarest
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Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'most the rarest'.
Suggestion: most the rarest
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Line 5, column 623, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a minute' or simply 'minutes'?
Suggestion: a minute; minutes
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Message: Did you mean 'Let's'?
Suggestion: Let's
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Line 17, column 52, Rule ID: NOW_A_DAYS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'nowadays'?
Suggestion: nowadays
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Suggestion: a day; days
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Line 17, column 246, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun contents is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, if, may, second, secondly, so, well, while, in fact, such as, as well as, in most cases, in other words, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 39.0 19.5258426966 200% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 31.0 14.8657303371 209% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.3162921348 177% => OK
Pronoun: 71.0 33.0505617978 215% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 106.0 58.6224719101 181% => OK
Nominalization: 29.0 12.9106741573 225% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3610.0 2235.4752809 161% => OK
No of words: 757.0 442.535393258 171% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.76882430647 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.24534393385 4.55969084622 115% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60286153098 2.79657885939 93% => OK
Unique words: 323.0 215.323595506 150% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.426684280053 0.4932671777 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1129.5 704.065955056 160% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 9.0 1.77640449438 507% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 12.0 4.38483146067 274% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 32.0 23.0359550562 139% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 127.677153699 60.3974514979 211% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 156.956521739 118.986275619 132% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.9130434783 23.4991977007 140% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.69565217391 5.21951772744 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 7.80617977528 128% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.266552774229 0.243740707755 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0759193512928 0.0831039109588 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.06052465048 0.0758088955206 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.146739533831 0.150359130593 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0246835268717 0.0667264976115 37% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.5 14.1392134831 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.46 48.8420337079 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.98 12.1639044944 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 143.0 100.480337079 142% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 11.2143820225 132% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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