愛上社交網(wǎng)站的學生成績下降驚人

　Offline: Three quarters of the Facebook users didn't think the site affected their academic performance

　　據(jù)悉，四分之三的“臉譜網(wǎng)”的擁有者（學生）從未想到過這個網(wǎng)對他們的成績的下降會產(chǎn)生影響。

　　It is what parents of teenagers who 'revise' in front of the computer have long feared. Students who use Facebook while they study get significantly lower grades than those who do not, according to psychologists. A study has found that the exam results of those who used the social networking site while working, even if it was on in the background, were 20 per cent lower than non-users.

　　父母對是否在孩子學習時面前放臺電腦總是很糾結，有數(shù)據(jù)分析，相比起不使用“臉譜網(wǎng)”的學生來說，在學習時候偶爾打開該網(wǎng)的學生們的考試成績會稍微偏低。具體數(shù)字有點嚇人，運用“臉譜網(wǎng)”進行社交的學生的學習成績比不使用該網(wǎng)站進行社交的學生的成績要低20%。

　　Researchers say the findings undermine the theory that young people's brains are better at multitasking on digital gadgets.Study author Professor Paul Kirschner said: 'The problem is that most people have Facebook or other social networking sites, their emails and maybe instant messaging constantly running in the background while they are carrying out other tasks. 'Our study, and other previous work, suggests that while people may think constant task-switching allows them to get more done in less time, the reality is it extends the amount of time needed to carry out tasks and leads to more mistakes.'

　　研究者聲稱，學生們在進行“多任務處理”的時候，腦袋的運行速度會加快很多倍。有教授說，學生們在學習的時候，同時在打開網(wǎng)絡進行這樣或者那樣的社交活動。隨著電子技術的發(fā)展越來越快，人們希望在最短的時間內(nèi)做更多的事情。所謂 “欲速則不達”，人們在較短的時間內(nèi)處理越來越多的事情，貪心的行為讓我們犯錯的機率升高許多。

　　Vocabulary

　　findings n. 發(fā)現(xiàn)，調(diào)查結果

　　FaceBook n. 臉譜網(wǎng)