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wawjgreen on July 7, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Music for Programming

multi-tasking decreases intelligence--there are a number of studies on this. One paper says up to 15% decrease in IQ.

thallosaurus on July 7, 2022 [–]

And work without music temporarily decreases my IQ by 50% so I could live with the 15% decrease

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