Proof that NSider really does decrease your IQ

[Daddy]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/22/email_destroys_iq/

Modern technology depletes human cognitive abilities more rapidly than drugs, according to a psychiatric study conducted at King's College, London. And the curse of 'messaging' is to blame.

Email 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 email users exhibited these particular symptoms to a "startling" degree, according to Dr Glenn Wilson.

The deterioration in mental capacity was the direct result of the trialists' addiction to technology, researchers discovered.

Email addicts were bombarded by context switches and developed an inability to distinguish between trivial and significant messages. Incredibly, 20 per cent of trialists jeopardized their immediate social relations by rushing off to "check their messages" in the middle of a conversation.

Wilson's research is no flash in the pan. Computer technology in its modern, "interconnected" form is dumbing down the population more rapidly than television.

A 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 schools than PC-using children. Education experts have dubbed it the "problem solving deficit disorder".

Awash with facts, we've forgotten how to think.

King's College's pioneering study focussed solely on messaging - but there are many other emerging technologies that could be dumbing down technologies too, and their consequences haven't been fully explored.

We look forward to studies that examine the IQ lossage involved in the many other unavoidable parts of everyday life. Chores such as editing the Windows Registry (-2) , writing a weblog (-15), or reading the Ask Jack column in The Guardian (-175). ?
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NSider is a form of messaging.

WRYYYYYY.

It's true that I've been feeling a lot less intelligent after joining NSider.

[Kalahari Inkantation]

That means we're losing intelligence posting here, too.

[Donutz]

I lose intelligence everyday then.  flower;

[6M69I69B9]

olol, you don't even realize that you lose intelligence in here too.

[ncba93ivyase]

...kids performed better in literacy and numeracy schools than PC-using children.

While Mac and other *Nix users performed better than both.

I say this study is a load of bullshit, as it varies from person to person and what they use their computer for. If a person visits forums solely for debates, they're bound to learn something from the other person (assuming neither are complete retards) during the process. If a person uses a computer for programming and all that, more than likely, their mathematical abilities will become more refined and they will be less prone to spelling and grammatical errors.

[Daddy]

While Mac and other *Nix users performed better than both.

I say this study is a load of bullshit, as it varies from person to person and what they use their computer for. If a person visits forums solely for debates, they're bound to learn something from the other person (assuming neither are complete retards) during the process. If a person uses a computer for programming and all that, more than likely, their mathematical abilities will become more refined and they will be less prone to spelling and grammatical errors.

Yeah, that's true.


I'm awesome at math. My spelling and grammar are pretty awesome.


I just haven't been able to focus as much. I've also been much more lazy.

[Pancake Paraphernalia]

Yay i'm losing intelligence!

[Gitominoti]

I'm getting dumber by the second

[demonprince]

Posted on Nsider, I forgot to copy the M in modenr.


but all the Nsiders are like "Bull crap", "liek if its nawt CNN I don't believe it"

lolz