Are you multitasker? by kristina leskova

Many people are used to do more things at one moment. This is called multitasking. For example you are working on your computer and in the same time you can use your mobile phone. Just few days ago there was realized a study which reported that multitaskers do their tasks worse than the other people. Why is it so? Researchers from Stanford University found that multitaksers can be easier distracted and are less able to ignore unimportant information than people who do less multitasking. The researchers were really shocked. Many people think that multitaskers are people who can easily do many things in the same time. But if their work is bad they should not multitask. The ! researchers studied a group of 262 students. They divided them into high and low multitaskers and studied things as memory, ability to switch from one task to other and to be able to concentrate on one task. But the question is why the people who are the worst at multitasking do it at most? Maybe they just think about them that they are multitaskers, but they can not concentrate on more tasks. Anyway this world forces us to do more tasks because we work under pressure and the time is running so quickly. And if the people want to have also some free time they have to do multitasking. But for the employer this is not good. They do not work effectively. The multitaskers are not able to ignore irrelevant information. They were tested by showing them red and blue rectangles and the aim was to ignore the blue rectangles. But multitaskers were not able to ignore them. And maybe you think that memory of multitaskers has to be bigger but this is not true. Their memory is equal to o! ther people. Multitaskers just like to have more and more info! rmation. But they should work on their concentration.

related story (sgx15213): http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090825/ap_on_sc/us_sci_multitas...

by kristina leskova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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