Posted on 08/24/2009 3:13:53 PM PDT by decimon
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"The huge finding is, the more media people use the worse they are at using any media. We were totally shocked," Clifford Nass, a professor at Stanford's communications department, said in a telephone interview.
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We resent that.
Good grief!
Hire me to do the study.
Anyone could have figured that out.
Reminds me of a friend of mine who referred to herself as:
Little Miss Organization.
I called her “Little misorganization”
parsy, who was thankful she never got it.
You might think so, but...
You don't hear people boasting of being multitaskers? It's as though only dunces are limited to doing one thing at a time. And I can recall when you'd be berated for not concentrating on the task at hand. Times change.
parsy, who was thankful she never got it.
Maybe she couldn't focus long enough to get it.
Those test don’t really look like real multitasking. Real multitasking is knowing you just started a process that’s going to take a few minutes so while that’s running you do something else and maybe that has a lag built in so you kick off something else. Multi-mediaing might be involved but it really is different.
Well, if you want to elevate people who are incompetent, over people who are competent, then you'd have to change the evaluation standards. And to do that, you'd have to justify it as an improvement. So how do you justify raising up people who can't concentrate and do things half-assed and always have belligerent excuses, over people who learn how to do things right the first time, can concentrate and assume responsibility for their work?
Why, with a term! They aren't incompetent moronic jerks - they're multitaskers!
While you... well, you are fixated on single issues... and obsessive-compulsive... and... well there's medications for what you have...
“Anyone could have figured that out.”
Tell that to Obama. He’s the consummate policy multi-tasker and fortunately for us, it is substantially impairing his ability to get things done. After the Clinton health plan crashed and burned, even Bill Clinton conceded he had tried to do too many things at once. I realize policy overload is not entirely analogous to what was being examined in this study, but I think there are strong parallels. Obama’s running so fast he literally doesn’t have time to think and this IMHO is contributing to poor judgment. As a consequence, he is attacking his detractors instead of listening and accomodating his health plan to reflect the genuine concerns of Americans.
SJL is "stupidly." She can't do one thing at a time...right!
Oh, I dunno. I saw a lady driving an Escalade with a cup of coffee and a cigarette in one hand and a cellphone stuck to the side of her face with the other. As long as everybody dove the heck out of her way when they saw her coming she did just fine...
Thanks for the laugh. Take responsibility? Ha ha ha ha...
Anyone who's ever raised children knows that is not true. What do you call it when you are simultaneously supervising toddlers at play, cooking dinner, loading the dishwasher, answering a phone call, cleaning the house, paying bills, listening to talk radio, and doing the laundry? Multi-tasking is possible, if by multi-tasking we mean overlapping tasks which have chunks of wait time, such as the time it takes to cook a roast, run a load of dishes, download a large file, get through a busy intersection, etc.
You can't steer with an armpit? Sheesh!
People who have not yet mastered the art of doing one thing well ought not be encouraged to attempt three at a time.
We resent that.
No we don't.
Yes we do.
Well, you snore.
No I don't
Yes you do .. and you have bad breath
No I don't
Yes you do.
Never mind .. BOTH of you snore
No we don't .. and you sleepwalk, dragging us around with you
No I don't
Yes you do .......
I would not slight or demean the importance of those task but I would say they become routine. If a toddler gets hurt then that problem requires focus.
Obama is a glaring example of multitasking FAILURE.
Obama doesn't have sound judgment to begin with. Obama has NO intention of discussing anything with those who disagree with him. Obama is now using the HINI vaccination as a distraction. That will be the next "crisis" of convenience. We won't be getting any of the government vaccines - never have needed them.
They gave the students a form listing a variety of media such as print, television, computer-based video, music, computer games, telephone voice or text, and so forth.
Perhaps the multitaskers can take in the information and organize it better? Nope. "They are worse at that, too" Nass said.
"So then we thought, OK, maybe they have bigger memories. They don't. They were equal" with the low multitaskers, he added.
"The high multitaskers are always drawing from all the information in front of them. They can't keep things separate in their minds."
I was a stay at home mother and I know there's only so much you can do at the same time. Anyone can listen to radio or TV and do something else but you can't be loading a dishwasher and a washing machine at the same time!
Those who brag of their multitasking ability may not 'remember' that they forgot to call you on time, or do something they said they would do - because it escaped their mind, lol.
I looked up some other articles in Google and found that even businesses have been disappointed that multitasking doesn't always work well!
To do your best, put your full mind into the task at hand.
Sounds right. Splitting your attention among routine tasks may be productive but routine tasks don't require your best.
I agree. There are some things we do that are just kindof ‘automatic, mindless’. I used to crochet while I watched TV. Fingers just seemed to work without a thought, lol.
The most amazing multitaskers are employees in call centers.
Years ago when I worked in one, my one-track mind was totally impressed with all the other employees there answering calls, reading a magazine, surfing the net, talking to the employee next to them, eating a snack, and solving the customer’s complaint all at the same. This went on all day.
I never could do it. I only could answer the incoming call and solve the complaint. Totally just tunnel vision.
Of course, my answer might explain the terrible service found in some call centers. Not everyone is able to handle it all with such ease.
I also discovered while working there a great secret...when they put you on hold, about 75% of the time it’s just so they can talk to the friend next to them. Most of the time they already have your problem solved, but it gives them a few extra minutes to chat before having to move on to the next call.
Had a boss who thought she was the world’s greatest multi-tasker and everyone else was a slacker ... that’s because her husband, family and employees were too busy correcting or minimizing her mistakes to get much else done.
She had no clue how scattered and fragmented she was, how many things were only half done, what she forgot etc.
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