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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.
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.ccording to a few studies the average attention span is around 20 minutes. After that the mind may still retain some information, but a lot of it is lost. In the first 20 minutes, most of the information can be processed more readily and stored into memory by the brain.