Multitask? Lolwut?
June 9th 2009 16:09
Teenagers are always trying to multitask.
Myself, for example. Right now I'm writing this, texting, watching TV, listening to the radio, and trying to read a book.
Thank God I don't drive yet.
But do I really need to make myself cross-eyed, doing all of this? Is that my goal? Because it's working.
What's with the constant NEED for people to be doing multiple things at once? To make is go faster? If so, that's a stupid reason, and I won't ever do it agai-
Oops. Text message.
Anyway, they did a study. Humans, technically, can't multitask. Their brain just switches rapidly between tasks. So, let's say you're looking for two people in a crowd, on with a red hat, one with a blue. Your mind looks like this: "Redblueredblueredblue... red? BLUE?!" So, if your mind is on blue, but you see Red, it doesn't register, since you're concentrating on Red. So your search takes all that much longer, because you may skip over Blue multiple times before you actually see him/her. That's why it's so easy to overlook details.
I should go. My radio is blocking out the sound on my cell, so i don't know when I get a text. Or the name of whoever's on the Price is Right.
Myself, for example. Right now I'm writing this, texting, watching TV, listening to the radio, and trying to read a book.
Thank God I don't drive yet.
But do I really need to make myself cross-eyed, doing all of this? Is that my goal? Because it's working.
What's with the constant NEED for people to be doing multiple things at once? To make is go faster? If so, that's a stupid reason, and I won't ever do it agai-
Oops. Text message.
Anyway, they did a study. Humans, technically, can't multitask. Their brain just switches rapidly between tasks. So, let's say you're looking for two people in a crowd, on with a red hat, one with a blue. Your mind looks like this: "Redblueredblueredblue... red? BLUE?!" So, if your mind is on blue, but you see Red, it doesn't register, since you're concentrating on Red. So your search takes all that much longer, because you may skip over Blue multiple times before you actually see him/her. That's why it's so easy to overlook details.
I should go. My radio is blocking out the sound on my cell, so i don't know when I get a text. Or the name of whoever's on the Price is Right.
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