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Well, I Use An iPhone and iPad and I'm Not... Um... I'm Not... Unsmart?
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Two new studies offer the suggestion that gadgets are making people dumber, and that's not hard to believe. The first study said that people who got interrupted by technology lower on a standard cognition test. That makes sense, although I would imagine that being interrupted by anything would cause lower scores. The other study showed that some students have a hard time concentrating on homework for more than two minutes without using social media or email to distract themselves. That also makes sense, given the number of people I see, including myself, who are constantly checking their cellphones for email or to see what's going on on Twitter or Facebook. Like calculators probably put the final nail in the coffin of people ever knowing how to do math, smartphones and tablets are probably the end of people being able to concentrate on anything else. (NBC News)
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