Study Finds People Who Multitask Often Bad at It

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This article is about a study, that finds the people who multitask, often bad at it. Some researchers from Standford University studied 262 College Undergraduates, they were divided in high and low multitasking groups. Both groups were able to compare such things as memory, the ability to switch from one task to another, and finally, being able to focues on one specific task.
Their results were not what they were expecting, they found, the people who multitask more, are the worst at it, they are also more easily to distracted and less able to ignore irrelevant information than the people that doesn't do multitasking, or they doit less.

Yossi Milhem of CA 7:56PM September 21, 2009

The article is about multitasking. Researchers at Stanford University have found that people who do a lot of multitasking, are worst at it, then people who do no multitasking.
The researchers did experiments on 262 students where they divided them into groups dependent on how much multitasking they did.
The resault cleraly showed that people who multitasked most in their daily lives, were the ones who were the worst at it.
The conclution also stated that they did not know why this was the case.

Paul-Are Sandal of CA 4:16PM September 21, 2009

The article tells us about the research at Stanford University about multitasking. 262 students are explored their ability to ignore irrelevant information and to organize it. They also are tested the ability to switch from one task to the other. It is figured out that multitaskers are worse than people who do less multitasking. In an interview the professor Clifford Nass at the same university says about the results. He thought: “…the more media people use the worse they are at using any media…” He also considers that the high media mutitaskers can’t ignore the irrelevant stuff and are not able to organize the information. They also don’t have bigger memories than the others. The test of switching from one thing to the other shows the same result. That means that the high mutitaskers just want to get more and more information but they are not able to keep them separate. Finally this research has social impact and is funded by several car companies.

Lani of CA 9:54PM September 20, 2009