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Corollary: social networks ungracefully degrade analytic ability.


So does this mean the more friends you have on Facebook, the dumber you are?


Do a study. Find a reasonable test for analytical skills (and maybe a couple other tests to keep the study's purpose unclear), then get a few thousand people to take it. One of the questions should be the order of magnitude number of Facebook friends you have.

If you're correct, you should see a correlation.




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