Saw this in today's Wall Street Journal Online:
Feeling Stupid? Blame Your Computer
Talk about unintended consequences: the emails, text messages and instant messages that supposedly make people better-connected can also make them more stupid, according to a new study. In a project sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, Glenn Wilson, a professor at King's College London, tested the impact on workers of a steady bombardment of electronic messages and found that workers temporarily lost 10 points of IQ as a result of trying to handle all the incoming information -- more than double the four-point effect of smoking marijuana and roughly matching the effect of missing a full night's sleep.
I couldn't find the study itself, but there's more if you google on: ( "King's College" "electronic messages" study )
Any guesses as to how much a well-tuned GTD system *raises* one's IQ? Wouldn't it be great if that could be measured as part two of the study?
Have fun,
Tom
Feeling Stupid? Blame Your Computer
Talk about unintended consequences: the emails, text messages and instant messages that supposedly make people better-connected can also make them more stupid, according to a new study. In a project sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, Glenn Wilson, a professor at King's College London, tested the impact on workers of a steady bombardment of electronic messages and found that workers temporarily lost 10 points of IQ as a result of trying to handle all the incoming information -- more than double the four-point effect of smoking marijuana and roughly matching the effect of missing a full night's sleep.
I couldn't find the study itself, but there's more if you google on: ( "King's College" "electronic messages" study )
Any guesses as to how much a well-tuned GTD system *raises* one's IQ? Wouldn't it be great if that could be measured as part two of the study?
Have fun,
Tom