Don’t believe the multitasking hype, scientists say. New research shows that we humans aren’t as good as we think we are at doing several things at once. But it also highlights a human skill that gave us an evolutionary edge.
As technology allows people to do more tasks at the same time, the myth that we can multitask has never been stronger. But researchers say it’s still a myth ”” and they have the data to prove it.
Humans, they say, don’t do lots of things simultaneously. Instead, we switch our attention from task to task extremely quickly.
I never thought that multitasking was doing two things absolutely simultaneously. I believe that to be impossible, like saying two different sentences at the same time. So I reject the premise and endorse the secondary finding enthusiastically as being the truth we have all loved and accepted all these years.
Sounds right to me. I do remember reading that a statement fed into our ear channel gets to our brain and is stored in ~1/250 second (.004 sec). Of course this is slow in comparison to the retrieval time of a modern super computer. (.000000001 sec.). But our brain has tremendous storage capacity. Oh well, Nuff said!!