Who’d have thought it?

Further evidence that the mere presence of smartphones encourages researchers to investigate the bleeding obvious comes in the shape of a study from Aalto University in Finland on what are now known as “checking behaviours”, which is what scientists call “checking”.

Apparently, having a smartphone encourages people to check their email, news and social media apps more often, which might not be a total surprise. This result was compiled using real science, but you can simulate it by attempting to walk quickly down a busy street and counting the number of people you nearly bump into because they’re busy telling someone on Facebook that they’re walking down the street.