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http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_1694364,00.html
"London - We all know that technology has its advantages, but a new survey has revealed startling results.
E-mails, text and phone messages pose a greater threat to your IQ than smoking dagga, a survey, commissioned by technology firm Hewlett Packard, has found.
The average IQ loss was reportedly measured at 10 points, more than double the four point fall found in studies of dagga users.
The most damage was done, according to the survey, by the almost complete lack of discipline in handling e-mails.
Wilson and his colleagues found a compulsion to reply to each new message, leading to constant changes of direction which inevitably tired and slowed down the brain. "
Boy, I gotta be real darn stoooopid if this is true....
"London - We all know that technology has its advantages, but a new survey has revealed startling results.
E-mails, text and phone messages pose a greater threat to your IQ than smoking dagga, a survey, commissioned by technology firm Hewlett Packard, has found.
The average IQ loss was reportedly measured at 10 points, more than double the four point fall found in studies of dagga users.
The most damage was done, according to the survey, by the almost complete lack of discipline in handling e-mails.
Wilson and his colleagues found a compulsion to reply to each new message, leading to constant changes of direction which inevitably tired and slowed down the brain. "
Boy, I gotta be real darn stoooopid if this is true....
