The Ability to Concentrate Is Increasing?!

Internet use predicted concentration performance positively, yielding small effects for children but no meaningful effects for adults. This seems to be in contrast with findings that indicate adverse effects of digitalization in general, and video games, media multitasking, as well as overall increased screen time on attention capabilities in parti

Of course, this is measuring attention on a test where presumably the phones have been taken away! In other words, the environment may have made deep work more difficult but we still retain the ability to concentrate in a distraction-free environment. Or, perhaps in the past, people just daydreamed more instead of checking their phones.