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New study finds that the information throughput of a human being is about 10 bits/s. (www.cell.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The authors fail to come up with -any- source (credible or not) for that ridiculous 10 bits/s number. Their model is so simplistic it isn’t even worth engaging with.

And yet I've seen this article like 5 times since Christmas on Lemmy. If it was all just for the joke that Lemmings process data a 2 bits/sec, once, I'd be fine with it, but this trend of being fire-hosed with manure since the US election ended is seriously making me consider if Lemmy is worth it anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Posts like this show that not everyone understands what science is, though that doesn't stop them. Sometimes just having one downvote isn't enough.