{"id":876,"date":"2005-04-28T18:41:30","date_gmt":"2005-04-28T22:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=876"},"modified":"2005-04-28T18:41:30","modified_gmt":"2005-04-28T22:41:30","slug":"infomania-research-on-the-loss-of-iq-from-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=876","title":{"rendered":"Infomania: research on the loss of IQ from IT"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BBC News has a story titled, ‘Infomania’ worse than marijuana<\/a> (April 22, 2005.) A study for Hewlett Packard claims that some are getting addicted to messaging and that this reduced intelligence. The study was led by Dr Glenn Wilson, a psychologist at the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP)<\/a> at King’s College, London.
\nThis was from Geoff T.
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\nSee the CNN.com coverage – E-mails ‘hurt IQ more than pot’ – Apr 22, 2005<\/a>. Here is a quote from the CNN article,<\/p>\n

In 80 clinical trials, Dr. Glenn Wilson, a psychiatrist at King’s College London University, monitored the IQ of workers throughout the day.<\/p>\n

He found the IQ of those who tried to juggle messages and work fell by 10 points — the equivalent to missing a whole night’s sleep and more than double the 4-point fall seen after smoking marijuana.<\/p>\n

“This is a very real and widespread phenomenon,” Wilson said. “We have found that this obsession with looking at messages, if unchecked, will damage a worker’s performance by reducing their mental sharpness.<\/p>\n

“Companies should encourage a more balanced and appropriate way of working.”<\/p>\n

Wilson said the IQ drop was even more significant in the men who took part in the tests. (CNN, “E-mails ‘hurt IQ more than pot'”, April 22, 2005.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The BBC News has a story titled, ‘Infomania’ worse than marijuana (April 22, 2005.) A study for Hewlett Packard claims that some are getting addicted to messaging and that this reduced intelligence. The study was led by Dr Glenn Wilson, a psychologist at the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King’s College, London. This was from … Continue reading Infomania: research on the loss of IQ from IT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-culture-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}