On August 26, 2009
Multitasking: You’re Doing it Wrong
Maybe you’re reading this blog while simultaneously g-chatting with a colleague, absentmindedly scrolling through the headlines online and also occasionally noting down the odd idea for today’s meeting. If you would proudly offer this as evidence that you are a Gen Y multitasking ninja, you may be deluding yourself suggests recent research out of Stanford University. A group of researchers there found: People who are regularly bombarded with several streams of electronic information do not pay attention, control their memory or switch from one job to another as well as those who prefer to complete one task at a time. In a series of experiments, those that multitask regularly were found to be less able to screen out irrelevant information,…
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