UK scientists are unhappy with YouTube and microblogging
I don’t know how many times I giggled nervously while reading the latest news about another mega-study of British scientists, which spent a lot of man-hours and money. However, the new revelation pleases.
British scientists from the University of Stirling decided that the war computer games (wargames), social networks ("classmates", aha) and crosswords (well, at least something) can "build up intelligence." But the constant digging of the phone’s buttons with the aim of writing an SMS, watching videos on YouTube and, oh my mother, microblogging, weaken the working memory, i.e. ability to memorize information.
I will not delve into the scientific process. Briefly: the researchers prepared a program testing precisely “working memory” and used it on schoolchildren. Which, oddly enough, actively indulged in the above described useful and harmful entertainment.
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The verdict can hit even the captain obvious. If you play into something difficult, make plans on the fly and think through several moves ahead (keep silence for crosswords), then you are smarter before your eyes. And if you write something down a slang-shortened sidekick about a desk 20 times a day, then you, aha, are dumb. Watching the commercials “well, there’s a donkey boy and he eats a carrot,” and similar ones for some reason also have an inadequate memory effect. I can’t evaluate the benefits of social networks and microblogging, I have not tried it. But I'm sure many have something to argue with scientists.
PS And why only YouTube?
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PPS Hmm. I can not stop thinking about how these British scientists have come to all this? They are clearly led through time and space by someone's good genius.
British scientists from the University of Stirling decided that the war computer games (wargames), social networks ("classmates", aha) and crosswords (well, at least something) can "build up intelligence." But the constant digging of the phone’s buttons with the aim of writing an SMS, watching videos on YouTube and, oh my mother, microblogging, weaken the working memory, i.e. ability to memorize information.
I will not delve into the scientific process. Briefly: the researchers prepared a program testing precisely “working memory” and used it on schoolchildren. Which, oddly enough, actively indulged in the above described useful and harmful entertainment.
')
The verdict can hit even the captain obvious. If you play into something difficult, make plans on the fly and think through several moves ahead (keep silence for crosswords), then you are smarter before your eyes. And if you write something down a slang-shortened sidekick about a desk 20 times a day, then you, aha, are dumb. Watching the commercials “well, there’s a donkey boy and he eats a carrot,” and similar ones for some reason also have an inadequate memory effect. I can’t evaluate the benefits of social networks and microblogging, I have not tried it. But I'm sure many have something to argue with scientists.
PS And why only YouTube?
via compulenta
PPS Hmm. I can not stop thinking about how these British scientists have come to all this? They are clearly led through time and space by someone's good genius.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/68978/
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