04-30-2005, 11:00 AM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Email Destroys Your IQ: Official!
At Pocket PC Thoughts, we regularly touch on the topic of computers & technology and their wider role and impact in and on society. We've often debated how software and shiny gadgets and gizmos affect us, sometimes negatively. Does the following surprise you or had you always suspected it?:
"Modern technology depletes human cognitive abilities more rapidly than drugs, according to a psychiatric study. . . Email users suffered a 10 per cent drop in IQ scores, more than twice the fall recorded by marijuana users, in a clinical trial of over a thousand participants. Doziness, lethargy and an inability to focus are classic characteristics of a spliffhead, but email users exhibited these particular symptoms to a "startling" degree, according to Dr Glenn Wilson. The deterioration in mental capacity was the direct result of the trialists' addiction to technology, researchers discovered. Email addicts were bombarded by context switches and developed an inability to distinguish between trivial and significant messages."
The Register reckons that we are awash with facts and have forgotten how to think. So, putting your 'Thoughts' thinking caps on, does that seem fair, or is there more to this than meets the eye? Are computers the cause or the symptom of our ever accelerating culture and our manic muddling and juggling multitasking?
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04-30-2005, 12:02 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 450
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Does anyone have a joint for me? :lol: :lol:
I'm really, really afraid of emails now :lol: :lol:
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04-30-2005, 12:37 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 18
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Did someone say "muddling" ? :lol: Stats can be spun to say anything you want them to. In the cases of "20% walking away from a conversation to check messages", that's just poor social skillsand/or ADD. The schools in this area are responsible for the 'dumbing down' of the masses. So afraid of stigmatizing an underachiever they fail to challenge the top of the class.
At work I was taught to 'trust, but verify', so I rarely accept an email or internet as 'fact' untill I've done my own muddling and verified it. The study does not seem to distinguish between email users/computer users/game players, or between a common spliff head and a hydroponic hobbyist.
The promises from the 60's of technology providing us lives of leasure never came to pass, instead (and rightly so IMHO) we are each able to increase our productivity and accomplish the tasks of many 'Ward Cleavers'
"wffffffffffft!, 'ere!"
I reject the data. 
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04-30-2005, 12:57 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 450
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Other things that causes IQ increase/decrease:
Buying a Mac: +10
Buying a PPC: +15
Buying a PPC AND selling the old Palm: +30
Buying a Palm: -20
Buying a palm and selling your PPC: -40
Making stupid researches: Pricele...i mean -200 :lol:
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04-30-2005, 01:02 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 172
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I don't understand. Well, back to my e-mail.
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04-30-2005, 01:09 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 450
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by bvkeen
I don't understand. Well, back to my e-mail.
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lol... :lol:
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04-30-2005, 01:26 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 398
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Yeh those claims may be true but i bet you lose even more IQ if you frequently use IM programs.
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04-30-2005, 01:26 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 398
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Or you click on spam e-mails and then buy something from one!!!
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04-30-2005, 01:43 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 429
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I have to wonder what kind of people they started with. How did they verify their IQ's prior to and after the study? Are we talking about people who were intelligent and able to think analytically prior to the study, or were they the kind of people who already believed that a county sheriff would use a mass email chain to distribute public safety information rather than a press release?
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04-30-2005, 02:35 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 19
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Give me some thumpin' tunes and a few pills over email anyday. Employers take note.
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