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by deepsand

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Stoned On E-mail

By , InternetWeek
May 4, 2005 (2:49 PM)
URL: [v] http://www.internetweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=162101594[/v]

Using e-mail and other messaging technologies excessively can lower your IQ as much as if you smoked some weed, according to recent research sponsored by Hewlett-Packard.
According to researchers at the University of London Institute of Psychiatry, there's a serious "Info-Mania" problem among British workers, who are so addicted to constantly checking e-mail and text messages during meetings, in the evening, and on weekends that their IQs fall by 10 points.

That's more than double the four-point plummet seen in studies done on the impact of smoking marijuana, the researchers said, and equal to the affect of missing a night of sleep.

"This is a very real and widespread phenomenon," said Dr. Glenn Wilson, a psychologist with the Institute, in a statement. "We've found that Info-Mania, if unchecked, will damage a worker's performance by reducing their mental sharpness."

An accompanying survey of 1,100 Britons commissioned by HP found that 62 percent were addicted to checking messages out of office hours and while on vacation. Half of them responded to an e-mail within an hour, and one in five said they were "happy" to interrupt a business meeting or social gathering to respond to an e-mail or telephone message.

The distractions not only dull workers' intelligence, but irk other workers, said the survey and the study. Nearly nine out of ten said that colleagues who answer e-mails, text, or phone messages in a face to face meeting are "extremely rude."

"We are in danger of being caught up in a 24 hour 'always on' society," said David Smith, of HP's U.K. division, in a statement. "This is more worrying when you consider the potential impairment on performance and concentration for workers, and the consequent impact on businesses.

HP's posted a guide to spotting Info-Maniacs, and putting a stop to the problem; it's in PDF format and can be downloaded from the U.K. web site of Hewlett-Packard.
[v]http://h40059.www4.hp.com/featurestories/pdf/HP-Guide-to-Info-Mania.pdf[/v]

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by hal 9000

After all you are contributing to keeping that monster of the EL thread going. ;)

Surely that would have to indicate at least a 35 point drop in your IQ. :p

And then claiming you are expecting it to reach critical mass surely indicates another 58 point drop in your IQ. :)

Then looking forward to the resulting problems as they arise must indicate another 20 point drop. :)

So just from posting here on TR we can deduce a very minimum 113 point drop in your IQ so assuming that you where fairly adverage somewhere around the 145 point mark that there fore reduces you to somewhere around the 32 point IQ measuring yard stick that means you are at the upper end of being a slobbering idiot that can do nothing more than work IT just like the rest of us all. :D

Col ]:)

by jdclyde

I figured that was what you were going to refer to.

GREAT show. Too bad I can't watch it with my boys yet. 13 is not quite the time for that.

by dr dij

they need to leave the office, go down to the local pub, guzzle some Guiness. I'm sure that would not dissolve some brain cells. Or play that game where they run around without helmets and get whacked on the head (cricket?).

Or switch to watching eBay auctions or sending jokes to co-workers all day. Wait, I've got it: post to TR all day. Of course the 'multi-colored vapor' coming off the EL thread might be hazardous to your mental health? Why read a book on science, God created it all and there's no point knowing about it :0

by hal 9000

Festering mongrel that should have been put down months ago. ;)

Now it is invading every discussion that I drop in on of course it must be something to do with Neil being involved in this one as he has brought it with him in an attempt for it to gather some new input in its attempt to become self aware. :)

We all know what is going to happen I only hope that ProtusX is at Ground Zero on the first strike of Skynet as it attempts to make some kind of sense out of all its parts. Of course it is by now totally Psychotic and way beyond any form of help if only we could kill it before it spreads. :p

Col ]:)

by why me worry?

ya dig niggaz?

I be e-mailin and sh*t and getin mah high skool diploma so I can getz me a job at da mcdonalds

muffugin crackas always keepin da bruddahs down and sh*t

by why me worry?

for crying out loud..why is everyone so anal and uptight on TR? these geeks need to get out more and laugh once in a while

My post may have been in poor taste, but this is a good example of the dumbing down of our youth and how they speak these days

by Member 25348569

EL Post 1925 of 2013 from a certain Mr HAL 9000. Any relation? :p

Anyway, I'm trying not to post on it again so see you don't, either.

But it's hard. MrMiami has buggered off for the moment but Dawg is promising new revelations. All I can do is try not to give in...

Neil :D

p.s. Yep. Slobbering idiot working in IT sounds like you've got me summed up.

by hal 9000

Spoofing my TR account again? ;)

How dare you use my alias to post on the EL thread and then blame me for doing it! :p Do I have to report you to the TR Management again? ;)

Actually how old is that 1925 Post? I take it that was the number it was posted at and not the year? Although that thing has run soooooooo Long it could be either! :D

Incidentally what was the 1925 post about I don't go there as it makes my Broadband connection look like a dial up connection and everything is now miles toooooooooo SLOW! :p

Col ]:)

By the way on my last IQ test I scored 2 for getting my name spelled right and it was typed on the paper anyway I think that they awarded me that rating for accepting the right bit of paper. :D

Not bad when you consider that prior to starting working IT I was getting 180 in every IQ Test that I was forced to do. Now that must tell you something mustn't it? :D

by hal 9000

Neil you are truly an evil SOB and I suppose you know it don't you? :)

Making me open up Fire fox to have a look at what you where talking about.

Now just who is it that has been suggesting that I'm actually ProtusX? and more to the point why are you spoofing my TR account to make out that I'm still involved in that silly thread that started over 6 months ago? ;)

Yes I did get involved at the very start and even continued on just to see what Gret posted as I found her insights very thought provoking but since I've been reduced to a slobbering Idiot my attention span isn't as long as that monster has been running. :D

Now would you kindly cease and desist from spoofing my account to make postings to that out of control monster? :(

Col ]:)

OH YES I am the innocent party to this just ask my wife she'll confirm that I can not hold my attention on something for so long.

If you would like to send me your E-Mail address through the Peer Listings I have something that you will probably like. :D But I need your actual E-Mail address for the JPEG image. ]:) :D

by deepsand

The post numbers are not static; they change, as other posts are added.

They are dynamic links that are regularly re-indexed.

by deepsand

transferred to the others in the discussion, so it's a wash.

Actually, considering all the points we got from ippirate, maybe it's a net gain for some of us.

by why me worry?

come on, I'm sure everyone got a good laugh out of it..otherwise, you'd see people posting nasty replies to it

by hal 9000

Got you there didn't I? :D

God I'm getting as bad as Mr Miami using all capitols I need help now. :p

Col

by deepsand

You merely lucked out.

There are those here who, had they seen your post, would have been justifiably outraged.

It's not about being PC; it's about sensibilities.

We'll try to keep your gaff our little secret.

Suitable targets to be here held up to ridicule and scorn would be ippirate, MrMiami, & their ilk.

by sleepin'dawg

This your idea of humour? I would have thought White Plains, NY was a little far north to have any kind of a population of redneck crackers. Guess I was wrong about that. Guess bigotry knows no boundaries. 2005 and it's still rampant. Shame on you.

Dawg :(

by hal 9000

But what where you doing spoofing my TR account to place postings on the EL thread. ;)

I thought you said you where a scientist and not an IT guy. :p

You are learning way to fast for your own good so CEASE AND DESIST NOW before any permanent damage is done. :D

Col ]:)

by Member 25348569

I tried calling the Paranoia Helpline but I had to keep ringing off because they were trying to trace my call.

The problem is that I have such low self-esteeem that nobody important is out to get me.

by hal 9000

Don't you realize that the Paranoid Help Line has caller ID so they don't need to trace your call? :) They already have your number right in front of them before they even answer the call. :D

You are not as sick as we all thought you where. :p

Col ]:)

by deepsand

"1167" if you are using a rotary phone, and Caller ID will be blocked for that call.

Better yet, for a one-time fee, subscribe to Line Blocking.

Just don't call any Toll Free numbers; ANI overrides Call/Line Blocking.

by why me worry?

and this kind of talk was a common and everyday thing with the teenagers in my "hood"

I'm not picking on anyone in particular or resorting to racial slurs, but the entire teen culture is turning into a bunch of illiterate ebonic speaking fools who talk just like what I posted before

if you find it offensive, then you are obviously blind as to what is going on with teenagers these days and the whole stupidity of the "gangsta" mentality

by sleepin'dawg

punk out of Brooklyn but it seems you can't take Brooklyn out of the punk. It's time you grew up and acquired a bit of style never mind class. Racism in any form is not humorous regardless of where you grew up. Your little corner of the world may talk that way but the rest doesn't. Where have you been hiding the past 30 years??? What rock did you slither out from under??? Your so called humor is in extremely bad taste. We all have prejudices in some form or another. I know that I have mine and have even voiced them on TR but not as tastlessly as you have.

Dawg :(

Dawg :(

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