Researchers at the University of London Institute of Psychiatry have found that the constant distractions of email and texting are more harmful to performance than cannabis.
Those distracted by incoming email, phone calls, and text messages saw a 10-point fall in their IQ, more than twice that found in studies of the impact of smoking cannabis, according to the researchers.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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It’s already a common belief that, as stated on Something Awful<\/a>, “the Internet makes you stupid”.