Earlier this year researchers tested two groups — regular multitaskers and non-multitaskers — in an attempt to identify cognitive differences in people capable of doing many things at once. It turns out that non-multitaskers scored higher in all three categories of the study: attention, memory and even work efficiency.
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, a group of Stanford researchers has found.
After putting about 100 students through a series of three tests, the researchers realized those heavy media multitaskers are paying a big mental price.
Read more about the research methodology and findings here.
The findings were clear, even though multitaskers think they are accomplishing more, they were not by every measure the researchers could test. What the multitaskers were consistently doing is getting distracted by less/unimportant items. We will soon be an entire country of diluted cognitive abilities. Sigh.
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