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10%

10% -- information retention rate for People reading text content (2024)

2024  · Insivia

People tend to retain 10% of the information retained from reading text.

  • Attributed to an Insivia report without publication year or methodology specified
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Value
10%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2024
Entity
People reading text content
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Strong, reliable evidence

Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.

60/100 confidence

Single source - not yet corroborated

Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Insivia Primary Tier C
https://www.webdew.com/blog/testimonial-videos ↗
Confidence: 48/100 Vintage: 2024 Channel: Deep Crawl
Source Article
Testimonial Videos Guide: Your key to marketing success in 2026
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Insivia · Original study ↗

Cited in webdew blog as coming from Insivia's report; serves as the text-content baseline against the 95% video retention figure; no date or sample size given

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People reading text content: 10% information retention rate. Source: Insivia (2024). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/text-information-retention-rate-10
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