BERKELEY, CA—Raising the alarm about an issue that could have long-term consequences for American youth, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, published a study Wednesday that found the majority of Generation Z telepaths lacked the attention span to read even a single mind. “In prior generations, telepaths would spend whole afternoons scrutinizing another person’s thoughts, but these days the average young mind reader loses interest in 15 seconds or less,” said cognitive scientist Daniel Merrill, emphasizing that the advent of TikTok and other short-form Internet content had eroded the ability of people under the age of 30 to truly engage with a target’s deepest desires, fears, and insecurities. “Unfortunately, the allure of slowly uncovering someone’s most closely guarded secrets simply can’t compete with the quick dopamine rush provided by social media, which is why attention spans among telepaths have steadily declined since the late 2000s. Most barely finish a snippet of a thought before dropping their psychic holds to look at their phones. To make matters worse, many are choosing to forgo the mind-reading process entirely by having generative AI summarize the human subconscious.” The study also concluded that the crisis had reached a point where an estimated 77% of Americans aged 17 to 24 would be unfit to serve as psychic soldiers in the U.S. Extrasensory Perception Corps.The post Study Finds Gen Z Telepaths Lack Attention Span To Read Even Single Mind appeared first on The Onion.