An interesting article I discovered on Loïc le Meur's blog.
Modern technology depletes human cognitive abilities more rapidly than
drugs, and is dumbing down the population more rapidly than television according
to a psychiatric study conducted at King's College, London.
Messaging users suffered a 10 per cent drop in IQ scores, more than twice
the fall recorded by marijuana users, in a clinical trial of over a thousand
participants. Doziness, lethargy and an inability to focus are classic
characteristics of a spliffhead, but messaging users exhibited these particular
symptoms to a "startling" degree, according to the study.
Another study of 100,000 school children in over 30 countries around the
world testified that non-computer using kids performed better in literacy and
numeracy than PC-using children who neglect their homework. Awash with facts,
children don’t know what to do with the information they access, how to prioritize.
They lose their creativity and imagination, their ability to analyze and build
coherent arguments, they've forgotten how to think.... Education experts have
dubbed it the "problem solving deficit disorder".
Extract from theregister.co.uk, April 22, 2005
Ok girls, I need your constructive comments on this with the right facts,
arguments and counter-examples, quick! Otherwise, my friends who think I'm
crazy to let each of you own a computer and do what you want with it are right.
And I should put a halt to all of this for your IQ's, your EQ's and your
critical thinking’s sake...
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