Get Off-line and Smoke Your Dope Young Man
A recent article by our class speaker Steve Berlin Johnson in Discover Magazine had some interesting facts in it.
First, a study by the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s college London found that checking e-maild and responding to IM reduces a person's IQ by 10 points. Previous studies found that smoking marijuana reduced a person's IQ by only 8 points!
Second, the researchers coined a term - infomania - to refer to the effects of too much information on a person.
It is too bad that our class will not be meeting anymore. As a constant member of the back row, I observed a few "infomaniacs" in class throughout the semester. If someone could have brought some marijuana to class, we could have conducted a little follow-up research. Anything for the futherment of science.
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