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NYT: New data on the problems of "multitasking"
Merlin Mann | Mar 26 2007
Slow Down, Multitaskers, and Don’t Read in Traffic - New York Times Yesterday's New York Times front page ran an article pulling together the results of several recent studies looking at how interruptions and attempts to multitask can affect the quality of work as well as the length of recovery time. Here's one bit that really grabbed me:
And, from a PDF of another of the studies cited ("Isolation of a Central Bottleneck of Information Processing with Time-Resolved fMRI"), here's a telling snippet from the article's abstract (yes, most of the rest of it is well over my head):
My own feelings on the myth of multi-tasking are well-documented, but it's fascinating to see research interest focused in this area -- although it's certainly not surprising, given its potential impact on knowledge workers and the industries that employ them. Again, from yesterday's NYT article:
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[...] 43 Folders blog had an interesting post today. In a nutshell, they talk about how multi-tasking as a human being is mostly a myth, and even people who seem to be able to do several things at once are usually very good into breaking down their problems in smaller pieces and keep focus on them. I would call it they are good context switchers. [...] » POSTED IN:
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