Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Text messaging becomes more imprecise for children and youth


"Faster, but less precise, it is revealed that a study on children and young people who use long text messages from cell phones.

According to a publication on the website of the BBC, the observation was made by Australian researchers to 317 youths between 11 and 14 years. The analysis was based on damage to health caused by the use of the cell.

Bioelectromagnetics published the scientific journal that radiation emitted by cell phones to send a text message, or SMS, is 0.03%, and those who come to deliver the calls is greater. As the messages are more secure.

"We do not believe that cell phones fry your brain," he pointed to the magazine Science ABC epidemiologist Michael Abramson, who led the study.

On the other hand, at Monash University in Australia pointed out another problem. Conducted a study that asked children to answer a few questions.

All children using the telephone, especially predictive messages (is the system that automatically complete words), the questionnaires completed faster, but obtained a greater number of wrong answers.

It was in this study when Dr. Adamson was right in saying that the messages could "cause children to be faster but also more vague." If you're used to typing a few letters and the word is completed alone, you tend to expect everything to work, "he quoted.

In short, the "predictive text" may "think" quickly, but without precision.

And How do you write your text messages? You think you have this problem, why?

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