{"id":51163,"date":"2015-08-11T02:49:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T02:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_humans_may_have_adapted_to_walking_while_texting_study_suggests\/"},"modified":"2015-08-11T02:49:57","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T02:49:57","slug":"reuters_humans_may_have_adapted_to_walking_while_texting_study_suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51163","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Humans may have adapted to walking while texting, study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texting while driving is clearly a bad idea, but it may be dangerously distracting while walking, too, a new study suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers asked 30 people to navigate an obstacle course three times and found they were significantly slower while texting and walking than when completing the route without any distractions.<\/p>\n<p>When the researchers had people walk, text and do math quizzes on an iPhone all at the same time, it also slowed them down by about the same amount.<\/p>\n<p>The lower speed was expected, said senior study author Conrad Earnest, an exercise researcher at Texas A&#038;M University in College Station. What was surprising, however, is that staring at the tiny screen didn\u2019t make people any more likely to crash into things.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/life\/health-and-fitness\/health\/humans-show-adaptation-to-walking-while-texting-study-suggests\/article25906392\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texting while driving is clearly a bad idea, but it may be dangerously distracting while walking, too, a new study suggests. Researchers asked 30 people to navigate an obstacle course three times and found they were significantly slower while texting<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51163\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,175,104,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-health-medicine","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}