Far from boosting productivity, a constant flow of email and phone messages impairs an office worker's ability to focus, a study suggests
  • The constant stream of emails, calls and messages lowers the IQ of workers.
  • The constant flow of information impairs the ability to focus on tasks.
  • The average IQ is reduced by 10 points, twice as much as smoking marijuana.
  • Men are more susceptible to the influence of “infomania” than women.
  • Working in a flurry of information reduces the ability to concentrate, comparable to the loss of sleep.
  • Many workers become dependent on modern ways of communication.
  • The quality of information in messages can be a major concern for workers.
  • Misleading or incomplete emails can degrade employee performance.
  • Lvxferre@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    That makes quite a bit of sense for me. Intelligence is, in large part, sorting and connecting meaningful bits of info into a correct (logically sane) conclusion; however both things are affected if you’re exposed to noise, and you need to spend “processing power” elsewhere.

    Based on that, I also predict some correlation between IQ and the usage of smartphones in short bursts across the day, “just to check things out”.