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[MathGeek]

Originally Posted by Goooh

“Workers distracted by e-mail and phone calls suffer a fall in IQ more than twice that found in marijuana smokers.”

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/public...f-multitasking

The assertion seems fishy on its face, because of how IQ is measured in standard tests, so I've conducted a thorough scholarly search for the original scholarly publication. The trouble is that even though the Rosen quotation has been widely cited in opinion pieces and blog type stuff, the underlying study is not available. It is not clear how this purported study was performed of if Rosen just made it up, because she did not cite a scholarly source (authors, journal, title of article).

This purported email and phone call induced IQ drop, is it long-term (like with marijuana use), or is it temporarily limited to the time when one is multitasking the emails and phone calls, etc.? Science is not science at all unless the methodology, data, and results are published. This one fails the smell test. But I bet the claims fool lots of pot heads.