Email Worse Than Marijuana For Intelligence?

Email Worse Than Marijuana For Intelligence? 700

Posted by Zonk on Friday April 22, 2005 @08:35PM from the as-an-evergreen-state-graduate-i'm-unqualified-to-comment dept.

wallykeyster writes "The Guardian is reporting that a recent study at King's College indicates that the average IQ loss of email users was 10 points (or six points more than cannabis users). Details on The Register as well. The Register has a related story about how computers make kids dumb and an apparent "problem-solving deficit disorder" observed in children who use computers. I thought it was television that rotted your brain?"

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Instant Messaging (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @08:36PM (#12319405)

OMG I bet you lose 20 points for IM

My email made me fat.. (Score:5, Funny)

by brxndxn ( 461473 ) writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @08:38PM (#12319421)

I'm gonna figure out how to sue someone cause' my email made me fat.

My neighbor's email made him a pedophile.

And, my dog's email made him kill himself.

And a friend's email made him blame everything else in his life for being dumb.

I smoke cannabis and use email (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @08:39PM (#12319427)

What effects does that have on my memory and intelligence?

*lights one up*

Aww, who cares

Email is distracting? (Score:4, Funny)

by dmuth ( 14143 ) writes: <.doug.muth+slashdot. .at. .gmail.com.> on Friday April 22, 2005 @08:39PM (#12319428) Homepage Journal

I have no idea what TFA means by that.

I can easily stay focus--ooh, Amazon shipped my book order!

ah.. (Score:5, Funny)

by Kaisum ( 850834 ) writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @08:39PM (#12319430)

"pass the pop3...dude.." "Police arrested a local ISP for running an SMTP" "That's one less scum off the face of this earth, we can't have these kids propigating this brain-numbing garbage," says Officer Joe Johnson, "Not in my town"

Re:Instant Messaging (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @08:39PM (#12319433)

LOL

Re:Instant Messaging (Score:5, Funny)

by httpamphibio.us ( 579491 ) writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @08:39PM (#12319434)

Don't you mean "OMG i bet u luz 20 pts 4 im?"

Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)

by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @08:39PM (#12319437)

Comment removed based on user account deletion

Blame it on M$ (Score:2, Funny)

by dword ( 735428 ) writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @08:46PM (#12319477)

This is only the result of using M$ applications and playing games in stead of studying/reading.
No big deal... As it was previously stated, "it just works!" and nobody cares how and why. On the other hand, if you don't spend too much time playing, what else can you do but work/study ? When I say games, I don't mean mindgames, I mean something like violent RPG's / Shoot'em up.

Ok... So I'm blaming it on Microsoft... this is the only corporate name I can think of at this time but you get the point: Apps for lazy & long, dull games.

500 books in the household? (Score:5, Funny)

by psoriac ( 81188 ) writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @08:47PM (#12319487)

How in the world do you correct for all other factors and then go on to claim that computers make kids less intelligent than having 500 books in the household? Adding together all my fiction, reference, and technical books I barely break the 200 count. Aren't they really saying that kids in more affluent homes are smarter? And are they factoring in easy access to public libraries?

Worse yet... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @08:51PM (#12319513)

OMG I bet you lose 20 points for IM

I hear that it's 45 points for frequent Slashdot posting.

Re:Worse yet... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @08:53PM (#12319527)

>>OMG I bet you lose 20 points for IM

>I hear that it's 45 points for frequent Slashdot posting.

No, that would be frequent Slashdot moderating.

damn (Score:2, Funny)

by SubtleNuance ( 184325 ) writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @08:59PM (#12319558) Journal

Im doubly screwed.

Re:Every day... (Score:3, Funny)

by google ( 125927 ) writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @08:59PM (#12319563) Homepage

TV's been doing the set-up work for years... gently prepping us... slowly inundating us with live audiences, then laugh tracks, then nothing but our own morbid sense of humor... Even the History channel seems to have lost it's verve in the face of such enlightening TV as Who's Your Daddy?

Oh oh oh -- did anyone see that Seinfeld re-run last night? When Kramer had the oil tanker inven-- Hey, email fram Nambikstan... all caps, must be important!

Re:WTF? (Score:2, Funny)

by bladx ( 816461 ) writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @09:00PM (#12319571)

... I do PHP... but don't tell anyone.

4/20 (Score:2, Funny)

by XFilesFMDS1013 ( 830724 ) writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @09:05PM (#12319605)

You know, it would have been better if they published this study on Wednesday, I mean, for obvious reasons.

Re:Well, funny and all but..... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @09:13PM (#12319659)

Come on people, lets put our heads together and help Mr. Passthecrackpipe be a better parent.

Re:The Solution (Score:3, Funny)

by citking ( 551907 ) writes: <jay.citking@net> on Friday April 22, 2005 @09:14PM (#12319667) Homepage

Make email illegal (then there will be no more spam!) And legalize pot... that way i wont even care that i dont have email anymore

Damn, and I thought the spammers were the ones on drugs. Or maybe that's the Enzyte talking...

Rationalization (Score:2, Funny)

by otterpop81 ( 784896 ) writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @09:15PM (#12319676)

The fact that the parent is modded +5 Insightful just reeks of rationalization.

Great, that's all we need... (Score:3, Funny)

by Tenebrious1 ( 530949 ) writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @09:39PM (#12319801) Homepage

Now my inbox is going to be filled by spam with subjects like "Raise your IQ 10 points!"

Does give a whole new meaning... (Score:2, Funny)

by U96 ( 538500 ) writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @09:39PM (#12319802)

to "crackberry"

Re:Sex Lowers IQs (Score:5, Funny)

by Zemran ( 3101 ) writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @09:44PM (#12319828) Homepage Journal

Next up we will see how sex lower people's IQ

I would like to volunteer for your research. Maybe we can get a grant to do more research into the culmulative factors like 'the simultaneous effects of drugs and marijuana om the IQ' or does reading e-mail during sex while smoking marijuana lower your IQ or just cause fires?'... The research posibilities are endless and just as meaningful as this first round of research.

Re:Every day... (Score:2, Funny)

by ivar ( 31153 ) writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @09:45PM (#12319832)

Is the back-forth banter here really intelligent? Seems more like smalltalk.

Smalltalk is a great language.. I would hardly consider learning an OO programming language to be trivial or mind numbing.

oh my (Score:5, Funny)

by St. Arbirix ( 218306 ) writes: <matthew...townsend@@@gmail...com> on Friday April 22, 2005 @09:54PM (#12319872) Homepage Journal

Who else is feeling bad for the old people in Korea?

Re:4/20 (Score:3, Funny)

by TheLittleJetson ( 669035 ) writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @10:00PM (#12319897)

They were too busy sucking hash vapors through a straw. I was, at least...

Re:Well, of course it costs IQ points! (Score:3, Funny)

by Legion303 ( 97901 ) writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @10:17PM (#12319985) Homepage

i think u miss-spelled grammer..

Re:Well, funny and all but..... (Score:5, Funny)

by cculianu ( 183926 ) writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @10:25PM (#12320029) Homepage

Amen! MUDs are EVIL!

So are MMORPGs. I quit my job and divorced my wife because of Ultima Online alone!

However I *did* make 5x GM, so it was wayy worth it.. I'll take 5x GM in old skool UO (circa 1998) over sex and money any day!!

Re:Well, funny and all but..... (Score:5, Funny)

by jericho4.0 ( 565125 ) writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @10:31PM (#12320066)

"90-100wpm, depending on content"
Now you can get a job at your local swordmaker or apocrathy.

Re:Instant Messaging (Score:5, Funny)

by ikkonoishi ( 674762 ) writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @10:40PM (#12320109) Journal

No its "OMG T3H IM /\/\4|3 J00 DUM LOLOLOL!!11"

Re:Well, funny and all but..... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @10:41PM (#12320117)

My parents-in-law limit the time that their kids can play computer in a day to about 30 minutes. The kids don't complain if your nice when you remind them their time is up (which father-in-law often isn't but that is another story.) anyway, when I was over there, the 7 year old lane told me that I had been playing the computer too long, and that my time was clearly up. darn starcraft.

Re:Instant Messaging (Score:5, Funny)

by justin12345 ( 846440 ) writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @10:45PM (#12320133)

According to AOL Translator its: [homestead.com]

OMG I BT U LOSE 20 POINTS FOR IM11!!!!1! OMG LOL

The ALL-CAPS are evidently important to the syntax, after all...
you don't want to look like a nerd.

Re:"Drop" in IQ?? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday April 22, 2005 @11:42PM (#12320381)

And well, in the end IQ tests are overrated anyway, they don't say much over your real life cleverness, ...

Someone sounds bitter. :-)

(* Posting anonymously because I always score +5 Funny on my IQ tests.)

Re:Well, funny and all but..... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday April 23, 2005 @12:36AM (#12320558)

apothecary.

Re:No: (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday April 23, 2005 @12:59AM (#12320661)

Slashdot is educational (including giving you practice at discriminating insight from bullshit). It can raise awareness of important (as well as stupid) issues. It is funny. And it can destroy a web server.

All of these things are good!

Re:OMG!!! (Score:4, Funny)

by Farmer Tim ( 530755 ) writes: on Saturday April 23, 2005 @08:40AM (#12321995) Journal

"I try where possible to write e-mails, text messages and instant messages with reasonable grammar, spelling and punctuation."

Yet paragraphs remain a mystery to you...

Re:Well, funny and all but..... (Score:3, Funny)

by Feanturi ( 99866 ) writes: on Saturday April 23, 2005 @09:52AM (#12322272)

Take off the processor fan, that way he'll only get to play about 10 minutes at a time. Problem solved. :)

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Instant Messaging (Score:5, Funny)

My email made me fat.. (Score:5, Funny)

I smoke cannabis and use email (Score:3, Funny)

Email is distracting? (Score:4, Funny)

ah.. (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Instant Messaging (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Instant Messaging (Score:5, Funny)

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Blame it on M$ (Score:2, Funny)

500 books in the household? (Score:5, Funny)

Worse yet... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Worse yet... (Score:1, Funny)

damn (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Every day... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:WTF? (Score:2, Funny)

4/20 (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Well, funny and all but..... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:The Solution (Score:3, Funny)

Rationalization (Score:2, Funny)

Great, that's all we need... (Score:3, Funny)

Does give a whole new meaning... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Sex Lowers IQs (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Every day... (Score:2, Funny)

oh my (Score:5, Funny)

Re:4/20 (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Well, of course it costs IQ points! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Well, funny and all but..... (Score:5, Funny)

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Re:Instant Messaging (Score:5, Funny)

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Re:Instant Messaging (Score:5, Funny)

Re:"Drop" in IQ?? (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Well, funny and all but..... (Score:2, Funny)

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