April 23, 2005
Digital dope
Well this explains a lot. According to a study by Dr. Glenn Wilson of King’s College, London, email addicts suffer a 10% drop in their IQ scores—twice the average decline experienced by marijuana users. From The Guardian:
Doziness, lethargy and an increasing inability to focus reached “startling” levels in the trials by 1,100 people, who also demonstrated that emails in particular have an addictive, drug-like grip.
Respondents’ minds were all over the place as they faced new questions and challenges every time an email dropped into their inbox. Productivity at work was damaged and the effect on staff who could not resist trying to juggle new messages with existing work was the equivalent, over a day, to the loss of a night's sleep.
Tiredness, lethargy, lack of focus… if only I could figure out why this feels so familiar.
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People who blog on a regular basis lose even more points of I.Q., or so my wife assures me.
Posted by: The Eclectic Econoclast at April 25, 2005 9:44 PM
