<story><title>Is full-time work bad for our brains?</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160714-is-full-time-work-bad-for-our-brains</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cubano</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m 50yo and am still learning new shit everyday...just a month ago I bit the bullet and learned enough javasc...excuse me ECMAScript, to be pretty damn dangerous :)&lt;p&gt;Over the past weekend I learned docker and am now running containers all over the place...these aren&amp;#x27;t trivial things and the speed of which I&amp;#x27;m picking stuff up is as fast, if not faster, then it has ever been for me.&lt;p&gt;The point is I am 10 years older then the age this study targeted, and I find it humorous that they are telling me I am AT LEAST 25 IQ points dumber because I work 50-60 hour weeks.&lt;p&gt;Plus, where do I tick the box about my lifetime of pretty hardcore drug use and its supposed effects on my IQ?&lt;p&gt;Now I do get tired...physically tired...from the efforts required to keep up but besides that, my anecdotal experience goes against this research.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rifung</author><text>&amp;gt; my anecdotal experience goes against this research&lt;p&gt;There are several things wrong with your argument.&lt;p&gt;Even if we ignore the fact that you aren&amp;#x27;t talking about your IQ, the fact that you learned docker or JS despite working doesn&amp;#x27;t even go against the study: you need to compare your speed of learning after working vs while not working. Knowing only how fast you can learn after working full time isn&amp;#x27;t enough to draw a conclusion after all..&lt;p&gt;Also, it&amp;#x27;s debatable how difficult it is in terms of raw intelligence to learn JS and Docker. It could be argued that using new tools is more constrained by knowledge than by intellectual ability, and this is especially the case if you&amp;#x27;ve learned similar things before, like another imperative language.</text></comment>
<story><title>Is full-time work bad for our brains?</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160714-is-full-time-work-bad-for-our-brains</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cubano</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m 50yo and am still learning new shit everyday...just a month ago I bit the bullet and learned enough javasc...excuse me ECMAScript, to be pretty damn dangerous :)&lt;p&gt;Over the past weekend I learned docker and am now running containers all over the place...these aren&amp;#x27;t trivial things and the speed of which I&amp;#x27;m picking stuff up is as fast, if not faster, then it has ever been for me.&lt;p&gt;The point is I am 10 years older then the age this study targeted, and I find it humorous that they are telling me I am AT LEAST 25 IQ points dumber because I work 50-60 hour weeks.&lt;p&gt;Plus, where do I tick the box about my lifetime of pretty hardcore drug use and its supposed effects on my IQ?&lt;p&gt;Now I do get tired...physically tired...from the efforts required to keep up but besides that, my anecdotal experience goes against this research.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Noseshine</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    &amp;gt; I find it humorous that they are telling me I am
    &amp;gt; AT LEAST 25 IQ points dumber
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They are not telling &amp;quot;you&amp;quot;. Statistics != &amp;quot;everybody&amp;quot;. No idea why you feel personally insulted. I heard x % of people are sociopaths (or insert something else bad here) - should I now complain &amp;quot;hey, I&amp;#x27;m &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; a sociopath (or whatever)&amp;quot;?</text></comment>