Your brain on computers

While this article purports to be about the breakdown of a wired society, it's really about one family with a serious problem, interspersed with quotes from various studies on attention and multi-tasking.

And you know, the thing about those studies is I always wonder - how do we know the cause? Sure, multi-taskers do worse on this test or that test, got it... but maybe the correlation goes the other way and they're more likely to multi-task BECAUSE they do badly on those tests.

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