“If You Can Avoid It, Don’t Multitask” --What?

You never see a series of articles to sweep through the mainstream and multi-media decrying the obvious conclusions from the research said, lead to a reduction in the , The overall results. I have to see the title, such as "more is counterproductive," and "more create health problems", "more than you stupid." "thief of time: more efficiency is not high." these news headlines Let me the heinous and cold at the same time, ( And more)! these newspapers, television, radio, Internet and the snow almost entirely either from or related to the article, "The control of the cognitive process switch in the mission, "in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human perception and performance. It was from the era of knowledge economy has to at the bottom of this. Therefore, I am immersed in the intensive, 34 original articles and found that, among other things, the study of the issue - e snt Involved in any realistic way, both the headlines, or the content of the news articles.

implementation of a full citation control cognitive process, the mission switch, which can be found in the end of this column. (And one on brain imaging that is I will write some other time. They cited as the common "more and more scientific institutions Evidence ").

you want from news articles, multi-task any person who is completely wasted of their time. I take, that is, the media play up to peoples fear on the failure to keep up with. I remember recent history, when more is often intense discouraged by the boss and colleagues. (Fortunately, this is to change the Now, check out the image of a very productive staff meeting last scup).

first thing I noticed when I do a little research of the sources, the American Psychological Association ( APA) is not at all offensive to a media friendly, and speculation - Information Technology "spin" the matter.

Title in its press release, the article was published, said: "is more efficient and more» psychological shift gears to spend time, especially When transferred to the not very familiar with the mission. " Press Release subtitles, to reflect more accurately the thrust of The results showed that said: "Learning party CEO to improve interface design, staff training, diagnosis and brain damage. " did not mention the exaggerated introduced. Here, the actual reading, science publishing summary, and try to find anything in it about the low efficiency and multi-task: in April of the experiment, participants alternate between the different tasks or perform the same task repeatedly. 2 experimental tasks required for the response a geometric object, the alternative classification rules, and tasks, the other two experiments need to address the problem in arithmetic terms of the value of alternative actions.