 Which has a longer attention span, a goldfish or a human being? Today, it's a goldfish. Microsoft did studies and they found that a goldfish has a one second longer attention span than a human being now. Okay, my wife is laughing in the background. I know. It's like, you know, because, you know, you think of the goldfish going around in a circle and you're like, whoa, I mean, what's going on?