
Is Your Phone Actually Draining Your Brain?
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Brain Drain
Doug Perry is a lecturer at Stellenbosch University, who studies socio-informatics. He became interested in brain drain first from studying multitasking and then from investigating something called online vigilance. His work on online vigilance led him to wonder how strong brain drain effects really are. See across these studies, what do we actually know about the so-called brain drain hypothesis? And is it a meaningful effect? Is it a consistent effect?
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