-
2025 – Three in four teens have used AI companions, and half use them regularly.
A third of teens have chosen AI companions over humans for serious conversations, and a quarter have shared personal information with these platforms. One third of teens surveyed say they have discussed serious matters with…
-
2026 – Study finds that classical and jazz music have been decreasing in complexity
Jazz reached peak complexity in the 1950s – the era of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk – before steadily becoming simpler from the 1960s onward. Complexity of classical music increased and…
-
2024 – Almost 50 percent of Spotify listeners will skip a song before it ends, and nearly one-quarter will skip it in the first five seconds.
[https://musicmachinery.com/2014/05/02/the-skip/]
-
2024 – Song Lyrics Have Become Angrier, Simpler and More Repetitive
Overall, the analysis revealed that songs now use more rhyming words and choruses. “Across all genres, lyrics had a tendency to become more simple and more repetitive,” Eva Zangerle, the study’s senior author and a…
-
2023 – Study finds that pop music melodies have gotten simpler over time
Using algorithms and mathematical models, researchers examined the evolution of pitch and rhythm in hit melodies over the past seven decades. Their results, published last week in the journal Scientific Reports, suggest that both elements…
-
2025 – The percentage of children and young people who reported that they enjoyed reading was its lowest in 20 years.
Just 1 in 3 (32.7%) children and young people aged 8 to 18 said that they enjoyed reading in their free time in 2025. This marks a 36% decrease in reading enjoyment levels since we…
-
2025 – Almost everywhere in America, students are performing worse than their peers were 10 years ago.
Compared with a decade earlier, reading scores were down last year in 83 percent of school districts where data was available. Math scores were down in 70 percent. The declines have affected both rich and…
-
2025 – The average American spends approximately 7 hours and 4 minutes per day looking at screens.
Gen Z stands out, averaging around 9 hours per day on screens. https://www.magnetaba.com/blog/average-screen-time-statistics
-
2020 – Study finds that social media usage increases memory failures across all age groups.
The concurrent model revealed that on days when social media use was high, individuals reported more memory failures. The lagged model further revealed that higher previous-day social media use was associated with more memory failures…