Email Damages IQ?

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<p>The story is here:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/22/text.iq/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/22/text.iq/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>i didn't know that IQ was something that could be "monitored throughout the day"...</p>

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<p>Interesting... though in this day and age you could probably find studies that say anything. Perhaps students who smoke tend to be the one admitted to the Ivy Leagues...</p>

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<p>Yea, Ok. I'd be the dumbest guy alive now. I'd also like to think I'm pretty smart...</p>

<p>:)</p>

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<p>I find that article hard to believe. It talks about distractions damaging IQ, but wouldn't that only be temporary? I don't know... I don't really believe it.</p>

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<p>All it says is that email gives you more to do if you try to do it while doing normal work, and the more you try to do at once, the lower you IQ is. This doesn't work for a few reasons. First, what they're measuring is probably closer to concentration, not IQ. Second, the whole point of IQ is that it doesn't really change. A person has his or her IQ and that's it.</p>