Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports Apple Watch Owners Glance at Their Wrists 60 to 80 Times a Day.
The vast majority of those uses are not to check the time.
The reports Philip summarizes say that interactions last only a few seconds but how long does it take to break your train of thought?
Which reminded me of Vanessa Loder‘s post: Why Multi-Tasking Is Worse Than Marijuana For Your IQ.
From Vanessa’s post:
What makes you more stupid – smoking marijuana, emailing while talking on the phone or losing a night’s sleep?
Researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry at the University of London studied 1,100 workers at a British company and found that multitasking with electronic media caused a greater decrease in IQ than smoking pot or losing a night’s sleep.
For those of you in Colorado, this means you should put down your phone and pick up your pipe! In all seriousness, in today’s tech heavy world, the temptation to multi-task is higher than it’s ever been. And this has become a major issue. We don’t focus and we do too many things at once. We also aren’t efficient or effective when we stay seated too long.
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If a colleague gives you an Apple Watch for Christmas, be very wary.
Apple is likely to complain that my meta-comparison isn’t the same as a controlled study and I have to admit, it’s not.
If Apple wants to get one hundred people together for about a month, with enough weed, beer, snack food, PS4s, plus Apple Watches, my meta-analysis can be put to the test.
The Consumer Safety Commission should sponsor that type of testing.
Imagine, being a professional stoner. 😉