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Emails cause
damage to IQ, says report
(EuropeanTechWire) As reported in the UK's Daily Mail, emails, mobile texts and phone calls cause more damage to workers' IQs than smoking marijuana. After conducting 80 clinical trials, psychiatrist Dr Glenn Wilson of King's College London University found that a constant barrage of electronic communications dramatically reduced productivity and left workers feeling tired and lethargic. The study found that the IQs of those who tried to keep up with the daily barrage fell by as much as 10 points, the equivalent of missing a night's sleep. By comparison, IQ drops only by about four points after smoking marijuana. "This is a very real and widespread phenomenon," Wilson told the Daily Mail. "We have found that this obsession with looking at messages, if unchecked, will damage a worker's performance by reducing their mental sharpness."
(EuropeanTechWire) As reported in the UK's Daily Mail, emails, mobile texts and phone calls cause more damage to workers' IQs than smoking marijuana. After conducting 80 clinical trials, psychiatrist Dr Glenn Wilson of King's College London University found that a constant barrage of electronic communications dramatically reduced productivity and left workers feeling tired and lethargic. The study found that the IQs of those who tried to keep up with the daily barrage fell by as much as 10 points, the equivalent of missing a night's sleep. By comparison, IQ drops only by about four points after smoking marijuana. "This is a very real and widespread phenomenon," Wilson told the Daily Mail. "We have found that this obsession with looking at messages, if unchecked, will damage a worker's performance by reducing their mental sharpness."
full story:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=345878&in_page_id=1770
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Francis Heylighen
Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
Francis Heylighen
Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
