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[â¦] The average attention span of an audience is 7 minutes. Thus, the audience â students and business people alike â will only pay attention to a topic for 7 minutes, after that a change should be made to maintain audience attention.
1 Some state that the average human attention span is approximately 5 minutes; others state that most healthy teenagers and adults are unable to sustain attention on one thing for more than about 20 minutes at a time, although they can choose repeatedly to re-focus on the same thing. Transient attention is a short-term response to a stimulus that temporarily attracts/distracts attention. 2  Researchers disagree on the exact amount of human transient attention span; some say it may be as short as 8 seconds.