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So say Stanford professor Clifford Nass. Here's bit of his remarks as quoted at Psychology Today Blogs.
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. . . It turns out multitaskers are terrible at every aspect of multitasking. They’re terrible at ignoring irrelevant information; they’re terrible at keeping information in their head nicely and neatly organized; and they’re terrible at switching from one task to another… One would think if people were bad at multitasking, they would stop. However, when we talk with the multitaskers, they seem to think they’re great at it and seem totally unfazed and totally able to do more and more and more.
Personally, I know for a fact that I am NOT a multitasker. I have one single, but highly powerful CPU If am doing something, especially playing video games, I ignore everything else. If somebody asks me something during this time I have no recollection of what my answer might have been at the time ... it's more of a standard AFK / away from home message, something like "Yeah, sure, whatever".
I don't use my cell phone while driving, and if I have to then I use a hands free set and tell them to call me later or make it very brief. No chatting and texting and other BS.
Actually, I don't even listen to the radio while driving. It distracts me and tends to make me drowsy. If I drive on a long journey I'll burn a CD that makes an annoying noise every so often to keep me awake. Also, I don't drive or play video games for more than 3 hours at a time. After that I start making mistakes, so I take a break, eat something, etc.
Last edited by metaschima; 03-26-2014 at 07:25 PM.
... If somebody asks me something during this time I have no recollection of what my answer might have been at the time ...
Sounds to me like you were parallel processing, rather than multitasking. Whichever subprocessor answered the question just didn't have write access to the logs at the time - maybe because the (same block of) RAM was being written by the CPU?
Last edited by Pastychomper; 03-27-2014 at 07:33 AM.
Reason: correcting spurious write
Sounds to me like you were parallel processing, rather than multitasking. Whichever subprocessor answered the question just didn't have write access to the logs at the time - maybe because the (same block of) RAM was being written by the CPU?
Sounds like "old age (and treachery)," to me ...
... I think ... uhh, what was I saying? ... oh, damm, I dropped that. Now, is it worth me trying to bend over to pick it up, or should I just buy another one? ... where are my glasses ...
See: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/03...-cellphone-use
I would agree with a total ban on cell phone use in cars. I mean alcohol use is banned because it greatly increases chances of collision ... so then why shouldn't cell phone use be banned ?
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