Jul 16
Raising the alarm about an issue that could have long-term consequences for American youth, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, published a study Wednesday that found the majority of Generation Z telepaths lacked the attention span to read even a single mind. “In prior generations, telepaths would spend whole afternoons scrutinizing another person’s thoughts, but these days the average young mind reader loses interest in 15 seconds or less,” said cognitive scientist Daniel Merrill, emphasizing that the advent of TikTok and other short-form Internet content had eroded the ability of people under the age of 30 to truly engage with a target’s deepest desires, fears, and insecurities.
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