{"id":491,"date":"2008-11-08T16:12:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T20:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/?p=491"},"modified":"2008-11-08T17:05:56","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T21:05:56","slug":"a-simple-psychology-experiment-what-effect-does-the-web-and-google-have-on-iq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/a-simple-psychology-experiment-what-effect-does-the-web-and-google-have-on-iq\/","title":{"rendered":"A simple experiment in cognitive enhancement: what effect does the web and Google have on IQ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A psychology experiment I&#8217;ve long wanted done is to give a group of people an IQ test where they have web access, and to compare the results to a control group without web access.  I suspect those with web access would do quite a bit better, but it&#8217;d be interesting to see just how much better.  &#8220;The web raises your IQ x points&#8221;, where x = &#8230;  I&#8217;ve heard of a few experiments vaguely in this vein, but nothing seems to be quite like it.   It could be run pretty cheaply on a University campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A psychology experiment I&#8217;ve long wanted done is to give a group of people an IQ test where they have web access, and to compare the results to a control group without web access. I suspect those with web access would do quite a bit better, but it&#8217;d be interesting to see just how much&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/a-simple-psychology-experiment-what-effect-does-the-web-and-google-have-on-iq\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A simple experiment in cognitive enhancement: what effect does the web and Google have on IQ?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collective-intelligence","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}