Email rots the brain!
May 17th, 2005I just read an amazing article about how our new "always-on" society is starting to cause a glut of email, so much so that it rots your brain worse than pot—some say. My good bud Nathan Redberg IM’d me the story link from SFGate.com.
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Have a peaceful week!
The guys at Mind Hacks have dissected the widely reported story that ‘Email rots teh brain!’ and found that it is more spin than science. The results show simply that people do worse at IQ tests when distracted, although Hewlett-Packard (the folks that conducted the study) are not releasing details of the experiment, so others cannot even evaluate if the research is sound. The use of psychobabble for marketing marches on…