雙語：Twitter會降低學生的考試成績，那對其他人有什麼影響

Twitter Use Decreases Students' Test Scores, So What's It Doing to The Rest of Us?

使用Twitter會降低學生的考試成績，那麼它對我們其他人有什麼影響？

Twitter, used by 126 million people daily and now ubiquitous in some industries, has vowed to reform itself after being enlisted as a tool of misinformation and hate.

每天有1.26億人使用 Twitter，如今在一些行業Twitter無處不在，在被當作誤導公衆負面情緒的工具之後，Twitter決定要進行自我改革。

But new evidence shows that the platform may be inflicting harm at an even more basic level. It could be making its users, well, a bit witless.

但新的證據表明，該平臺可能在更基本的層面上造成負面影響。它可能會讓它的用戶變得有點……無知。

The finding by a team of Italian researchers is not necessarily that the crush of hashtags, likes and retweets destroys brain cells; that's a question for neuroscientists, they said.

一組意大利研究人員發現並不是大量的話題標籤、點贊和轉發會破壞腦細胞，他們說，這是神經科學家的研究的問題。

Rather, the economic reseachers, in a working paper published this month by the economics and finance department at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, found that Twitter not only fails to enhance intellectual attainment but substantially undermines it.

相反，這些經濟學家在米蘭天主教聖心大學經濟與金融系本月發表的一篇工作論文中發現，Twitter 不僅不能提高智力成就，而且在很大程度上破壞了這種成就。

"It's quite detrimental," Gian Paolo Barbetta, a professor of economic policy at the private research university and the paper's lead author, said in an interview with The Washington Post.

吉安 · 保羅 · 巴貝塔在接受《華盛頓郵報》採訪時說："這是非常有害的"。他是這所私立研究型大學的經濟政策學教授，也是這篇論文的主要作者。

"I can't say whether something is changing in the mind, but I can say that something is definitely changing in the behavior and the performance."

"我不能說是否有什麼東西在改變我的思想，但我可以說肯定有什麼東西在改變我的行爲和表現。"

To the best of Barbetta's knowledge, his study is the largest and most rigorous examination of Twitter's effect on student achievement, with applications to learning and information retention in other areas of life.

據巴貝塔所知，他的研究是Twitter對學生成績影響的最大和最嚴格的考察，應用於在其他生活領域的學習和信息存留。

The investigation drew on a sample of roughly 1,500 students attending 70 Italian high schools during the 2016-2017 academic year. Half of the students used Twitter to analyze The Late Mattia Pascal, the 1904 novel by Italian Nobel laureate Luigi Pirandello, which satirizes issues of self-knowledge and self-destruction.

這項調查抽取了2016-2017學年在意大利70所高中就讀的大約1500名學生的樣本。 一半的學生使用 Twitter 來分析《已故的帕斯卡爾》，這是一本1904年的小說，作者是意大利諾貝爾文學獎獲得者路易吉·皮蘭德婁，它諷刺了自我認識和自我毀滅的問題。

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