Most Wikipedia readers spend less than a minute on a page?? I always read pages all the way through… even if they’re about something that doesn’t interest me much...
Often when I need a wikipedia article I’m using only the first paragraph to refresh my memory, or catch the general strokes of some thing I encountered in a piece of media was. Average use case is wondering, like, what the Burj Khalifa is, going to Wikipedia, and immediately knowing its the tallest skyscraper in Dubai. After that, I don’t really care too much, especially if I needed the information due to setting cues in some story.
Yeah I’m surprised by that figure too, it would imply most Wikipedia readers aren’t even reading in any substantive way, just skimming and randomly stopping a few times at some keywords their brains so happen to recognize.
But then again GPT-4′s writings are more coherent then a lot of high school and college undergrad essays, so maybe I shouldn’t be surprised that average human reading patterns are likewise incoherent...
Depends why I’m on the page, for me. Pretty often I’m looking for something like “How many counties are there in [state] again?” or “What was [Author’s] third book in [series] called?” and it’s a quick wiki search + ctrl+f, close the tab a few seconds later.
Most Wikipedia readers spend less than a minute on a page?? I always read pages all the way through… even if they’re about something that doesn’t interest me much...
Often when I need a wikipedia article I’m using only the first paragraph to refresh my memory, or catch the general strokes of some thing I encountered in a piece of media was. Average use case is wondering, like, what the Burj Khalifa is, going to Wikipedia, and immediately knowing its the tallest skyscraper in Dubai. After that, I don’t really care too much, especially if I needed the information due to setting cues in some story.
Yeah I’m surprised by that figure too, it would imply most Wikipedia readers aren’t even reading in any substantive way, just skimming and randomly stopping a few times at some keywords their brains so happen to recognize.
But then again GPT-4′s writings are more coherent then a lot of high school and college undergrad essays, so maybe I shouldn’t be surprised that average human reading patterns are likewise incoherent...
Depends why I’m on the page, for me. Pretty often I’m looking for something like “How many counties are there in [state] again?” or “What was [Author’s] third book in [series] called?” and it’s a quick wiki search + ctrl+f, close the tab a few seconds later.