• phillaholic@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Maybe a hot take, but this goes for everyone. I see older people that can’t stay off their phones, and have little to no ability to multitask while doing it.

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      9 months ago

      Nobody can multi task. I wish this stupid myth would die.

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        9 months ago

        “I’m good at multitasking” is just another way of saying you can’t focus on one thing at a 🐿️ SQUIRREL!

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          9 months ago

          Your statement is just another way of saying ‘Since I can’t do it, nobody can, and people who claim to are liars’.

          You do know that skilled chess masters can run multiple games at once, right?

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            9 months ago

            They don’t make a move in each game at the same time though, the moves are still made separately and sequentially. Almost like they are alternating between tasks…

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        9 months ago

        Multi-tasking should rightly be called “context switching”. Your brain is alternating its focus between two things in extremely quick succession.

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        9 months ago

        Can’t upvote this enough, I have had ppl literally bragging to me about their ability to “multi-task” 🙄

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        9 months ago

        I have ADHD and have the opposite problem most of the time - I can’t keep myself on one thing.

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        9 months ago

        What about the left brain right brain simultaneous use, like people drawing two pieces of art at once or like how I can walk and be on my phone while being completely aware of my surroundings.

        Sometimes my brain is thinking in one space and my body is doing another. Like I hit auto pilot and stepped away from the cabin, yet the plane is still flying.

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        9 months ago

        Its pretty funny how people will take a single low-population college paper over the evidence of their own experience.

        I multitask daily, I have to it’s part of my job.

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          9 months ago

          It depends on the definition I guess. I would consider driving a car to be multitasking. But doing three different office tasks on my laptop feels more like context switching as someone dubbed it here.

          But I’m just some dude it’s not like I’ve read any papers on it but that’s what it feels like for me.

          • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world
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            9 months ago

            Well I guess anything can mean whatever you want with that statement.

            Good luck understanding objective reality tho. But at lest you’ll never be wrong or be required to call your assumptions into question.

            Must be nice.

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      9 months ago

      Where I live older people don’t know how turn on phone. They watch tv instead. Those who have some sanity left also go outside, sit on benches, talk with each other and keep your bike from being stolen.