Scientists have hit on a theory about inflammation that could radically change the way we treat people with pain and depression. One doctor isn't waiting for proof.
[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.
Â· just now. Report Abuse. The average attention span of a person is 2-5 minutes times their age, so a 5-year-old would have an average attention span of 15-25 minutes. Elementary education often seeks to extend or develop attention span in children.f you want a measure, then I don't know how one can expect to get an average of something like attention span when, say a person can sit and pay attention for 2 or 3 hours at a movie, but will pay 1/2 a seconds time paying attention to a Hot Pocket. If I say the average human attention span is 49 minutes..