E-mails 'hurt IQ more than pot'
Workers distracted by phone calls, e-mails and text messages suffer a greater loss of IQ than a person smoking marijuana, a British study shows.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/22/text.iq/
Oh crap, weed it is I guess :)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/22/text.iq/
Oh crap, weed it is I guess :)
posted by Asha at 3:31 PM
4 Comments:
Whoa, this is rather scary...! But I can follow in a way. With all the interruptions, you never get a real work flow, do you? Same for studying...:-s
4:29 PM
That article has some mistakes in it...the study mentioned in the article had only 8 subjects and the conclusions in the article were not supported by the data.
See here for more info:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002493.html
more discussion here:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/26/1828251&tid=188&tid=126
That said, I'm sure distractions don't *help* when you're trying to get something done.
6:12 PM
oh gosh is it true. I was in Kenya this summer, and, helped by the remoteness, I felt my brain sparkling so shiny and sharp for a whole summer. Now I'm back in the Internet email world and feel it filing my brain back to a manageably dull level.
having said that, i'm glad anonymous pointed out this study seems to be bullshit.
9:04 PM
Anything that makes marijuana usage at work seem more acceptable is OK with me...:)
9:19 AM
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