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Email Worse Than Marijuana For Intelligence?
wallykeyster writes "The Guardian is reporting that a recent study at King's College indicates that the average IQ loss of email users was 10 points (or six points more than cannabis users). Details on The Register as well. The Register has a related story about how computers make kids dumb and an apparent "problem-solving deficit disorder" observed in children who use computers. I thought it was television that rotted your brain?"
OMG I bet you lose 20 points for IM
I'm gonna figure out how to sue someone cause' my email made me fat.
My neighbor's email made him a pedophile.
And, my dog's email made him kill himself.
And a friend's email made him blame everything else in his life for being dumb.
--- We need more Ron Paul!
What effects does that have on my memory and intelligence?
*lights one up*
Aww, who cares
I have no idea what TFA means by that.
I can easily stay focus--ooh, Amazon shipped my book order!
"pass the pop3...dude.." "Police arrested a local ISP for running an SMTP" "That's one less scum off the face of this earth, we can't have these kids propigating this brain-numbing garbage," says Officer Joe Johnson, "Not in my town"
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This is only the result of using M$ applications and playing games in stead of studying/reading.
No big deal... As it was previously stated, "it just works!" and nobody cares how and why. On the other hand, if you don't spend too much time playing, what else can you do but work/study ? When I say games, I don't mean mindgames, I mean something like violent RPG's / Shoot'em up.
Ok... So I'm blaming it on Microsoft... this is the only corporate name I can think of at this time but you get the point: Apps for lazy & long, dull games.
How in the world do you correct for all other factors and then go on to claim that computers make kids less intelligent than having 500 books in the household? Adding together all my fiction, reference, and technical books I barely break the 200 count. Aren't they really saying that kids in more affluent homes are smarter? And are they factoring in easy access to public libraries?
I browse Slashdot at +3, Funny
I hear that it's 45 points for frequent Slashdot posting.
Im doubly screwed.
TV's been doing the set-up work for years... gently prepping us... slowly inundating us with live audiences, then laugh tracks, then nothing but our own morbid sense of humor... Even the History channel seems to have lost it's verve in the face of such enlightening TV as Who's Your Daddy?
Oh oh oh -- did anyone see that Seinfeld re-run last night? When Kramer had the oil tanker inven-- Hey, email fram Nambikstan... all caps, must be important!
"Thank you. Please spellcheck your genitalia references though.
... I do PHP... but don't tell anyone.
You know, it would have been better if they published this study on Wednesday, I mean, for obvious reasons.
Come on people, lets put our heads together and help Mr. Passthecrackpipe be a better parent.
"This food is problematic."
The fact that the parent is modded +5 Insightful just reeks of rationalization.
Now my inbox is going to be filled by spam with subjects like "Raise your IQ 10 points!"
-- If god wanted me to have a sig, he'd have given me a sense of humor.
to "crackberry"
"I thought they were the dominant species..."
Next up we will see how sex lower people's IQ
I would like to volunteer for your research. Maybe we can get a grant to do more research into the culmulative factors like 'the simultaneous effects of drugs and marijuana om the IQ' or does reading e-mail during sex while smoking marijuana lower your IQ or just cause fires?'... The research posibilities are endless and just as meaningful as this first round of research.
I love stacking my barbecues in the shed at the end of summer - you can't beat a bit of grill on grill action.
Is the back-forth banter here really intelligent? Seems more like smalltalk.
Smalltalk is a great language.. I would hardly consider learning an OO programming language to be trivial or mind numbing.
Who else is feeling bad for the old people in Korea?
Direct away from face when opening.
i think u miss-spelled grammer..
Amen! MUDs are EVIL!
So are MMORPGs. I quit my job and divorced my wife because of Ultima Online alone!
However I *did* make 5x GM, so it was wayy worth it.. I'll take 5x GM in old skool UO (circa 1998) over sex and money any day!!
Now you can get a job at your local swordmaker or apocrathy.
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing" - Alan Perlis
My parents-in-law limit the time that their kids can play computer in a day to about 30 minutes. The kids don't complain if your nice when you remind them their time is up (which father-in-law often isn't but that is another story.) anyway, when I was over there, the 7 year old lane told me that I had been playing the computer too long, and that my time was clearly up. darn starcraft.
And well, in the end IQ tests are overrated anyway, they don't say much over your real life cleverness, ...
:-)
Someone sounds bitter.
(* Posting anonymously because I always score +5 Funny on my IQ tests.)
apothecary.
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All of these things are good!
"I try where possible to write e-mails, text messages and instant messages with reasonable grammar, spelling and punctuation."
Yet paragraphs remain a mystery to you...
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Take off the processor fan, that way he'll only get to play about 10 minutes at a time. Problem solved. :)