The Dangers of Distracted Driving

The average teenager now believes they can follow seven forms of media at the same time. The human brain has not significantly changed in 40,000 years and I ain't going to change on any time scale. When you try to do lots of things at once, you do all of them less competently. You remember less of what you do and you're far less creative. A study by Hewlett Packard found that when workers were stoned their IQs went down five points a day. If you'd been sitting off your desk doing one or two tasks for an hour while Jason was talking then it would be better than if he had sat with his eyes closed until 4am. It's

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