Comments on: Does email really reduce IQ ?

By: Lifehacker

Lifehacker — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:57:59 +0000

Why it’s time to slow down

Author Barry Schwartz and journalist Carlos Honoré told technology conference-goers in the UK that “they should unplug and slow down in a world that was stuck in fast-forward.” Technology was supposed to make us more efficient, [Honoré] e…

By: Lifehacker

Lifehacker — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:29:52 +0000

Why it’s time to slow down

By: Etdot.com

Etdot.com — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 07:33:48 +0000

IQ Loss for email users more than double IQ loss for Potheads

First it was TV, then marijuana, now email is the thing sucking our brains. The Guardian reports that email, with it’s "addictive, drug-like grip" will drop 10 points from your IQ on average, more than twice the 4 point loss caused …

By: Calin

Calin — Wed, 11 May 2005 07:35:05 +0000

e-mail and telephone interruptions lowers our IQ

some recent studies runned in the UK by HP have a surprising result: seems that using the Internet reduces our intelligence:
Based on a series of tests carried out by the University of London Institute of Psychiatry’s Dr Glenn…

By: Piers Young

Piers Young — Thu, 05 May 2005 15:12:31 +0000

I agree – clearly email doesn’t make you more stupid. What research has shown though is that the interruptions that emails and phone calls facilitate affect our ability to remember things. The more complex the task we’re doing, the longer it takes our brains to task-switch (from task to email and back to task)and the slower (though not less intelligent) we become at doing things.
I posted on interruption research a while back if you’re interested.
Piers

By: BlogBites

BlogBites — Wed, 04 May 2005 02:28:36 +0000

In other words: when distracted, people do worse on IQ tests. Hardly ground-breaking research.

Mind Hacks

By: Vaughan

Vaughan — Tue, 03 May 2005 22:53:50 +0000

It is important to note that the findings about ‘IQ’ are not based on a survey.
The survey is a different part of the study, although this is sometimes difficult to distinguish from the press reports.
In general however, I agree that useful studies can be done as surveys, providing that the questionnaire fulfils certain psychometric criteria.
As the research has not been published however, we can’t even assess if this section of the study is robust.

By: TechnologyReview.com

TechnologyReview.com — Tue, 03 May 2005 03:44:46 +0000

Email Hurts IQ More Than Pot

A study of distraction caused by email in the UK found that people who do frequent email or SMS suffer a 10-point IQ drop—roughly twice the IQ drop caused by Marijuana. You can read about the story here, but please…

By: Blind Hˆna

Blind Hˆna — Tue, 03 May 2005 02:27:42 +0000

Uppdatering om effekten av mejl

Studien som refererades i New Scientist (se En splittrad arbetssituation gˆr oss ineffektiva och korkade” granskas kritiskt pÂ Mind Hack:…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 01 May 2005 17:08:14 +0000

‘Infomania’ worse than marijuana? Or is scientific poppycock worse than crack?

Workers distracted by email and phone calls suffer a fall in IQ more than twice that found in marijuana smokers, new research has claimed.
Later study links scientific poppycock to pot smoking researchers….