Thank goodness the Wall Street Journal isn’t known for its outstanding health reporting.
In a story written by Rachel Emma Silverman, she reports on some preliminary research recently presented at a management conference. Like a lot of research that gives us “surprising” results, it was done on a single group of 96 undergraduate students at a single college campus.
And the task designed for the college laboratory setting by the researchers would be difficult to characterize as analogous to most people’s work environment or jobs — it was highlighting every single letter “e” or, in the second part, “a,” while reading.
The question the researchers asked — Can surfing the Internet help you to become a more productive employee?
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Thank you!I am increasingly annoyed with and alarmed by the things that are being passed on via electronic media, such as studies like this (so few people seem to understand the idea of proper scientific studies), as well as select portions of studies and reports, or dated information.Too few people bother to check on original sources, validity and credibility, and simply pass it on without question.We need to re-embrace the concept of healthy skepticism and independant thinking!