Comments on: Multi-tasking? No thanks. http://jonathanstill.com/2009/01/27/multitasking/ Musings on Music, Dance & IT by the ballet piano guy with the cats who bakes cakes Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:23:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dan http://jonathanstill.com/2009/01/27/multitasking/comment-page-1/#comment-443 Dan Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:43:01 +0000 http://jonathanstill.com/?p=764#comment-443 Well said, I couldn't agree with this post more. What is interesting is there doesn't seem to be any evidence that Females are better at multitasking. When a survey is conducted asking both genders the question ‘which sex do you think is better at multitasking’ then women come out top but if an actual study is conducted then both genders are equal. What I find quite often in day to day life very much supports your story about the women with the minesweeping pushchairs. Multitasking is about being aware of multiple things but I constantly come across two women chatting in the entrance of a door way or an escalator or somewhere just as inconvenient for people to get past! It’s almost as if their in a little bubble and nothing else exists when all they need to do is say hello and then take 2 steps to the side and talk as much as they like. Well said, I couldn’t agree with this post more. What is interesting is there doesn’t seem to be any evidence that Females are better at multitasking. When a survey is conducted asking both genders the question ‘which sex do you think is better at multitasking’ then women come out top but if an actual study is conducted then both genders are equal.

What I find quite often in day to day life very much supports your story about the women with the minesweeping pushchairs. Multitasking is about being aware of multiple things but I constantly come across two women chatting in the entrance of a door way or an escalator or somewhere just as inconvenient for people to get past! It’s almost as if their in a little bubble and nothing else exists when all they need to do is say hello and then take 2 steps to the side and talk as much as they like.

]]> By: Vix http://jonathanstill.com/2009/01/27/multitasking/comment-page-1/#comment-434 Vix Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:23:37 +0000 http://jonathanstill.com/?p=764#comment-434 This is exactly why making progress on my dissertation is so darned hard! I simply cannot email, watch TV, play online Chess, paint my nails and think about an extended research project all at once. AND, having spent too many years doing all the above (minus the research) for the first couple of hours I feel all jittery when just doing one thing. Which is why, I guess, I'm commenting on your blog rather than writing up abstracts and copying down useful quotations from "Preservation Politics". :) This is exactly why making progress on my dissertation is so darned hard! I simply cannot email, watch TV, play online Chess, paint my nails and think about an extended research project all at once. AND, having spent too many years doing all the above (minus the research) for the first couple of hours I feel all jittery when just doing one thing. Which is why, I guess, I’m commenting on your blog rather than writing up abstracts and copying down useful quotations from “Preservation Politics”. :)

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