Proof Men can Multi-Task

This is the truth.

I don't want to start anything, but even though men can multitask, it is more common of an ability in women. It just is.

However, men are better at spatial perception. Of course, all of these differences are relatively minimal when compared to things like genetics and environment. Sex is not as big of a role in capabilities as people make it out to be.

"I don't want to start anything, but even though mean can multitask, it is more common of an ability in women. It just is.However, men are better at spatial perception. Of course, all of these differences are relatively minimal when compared to things like genetics and environment. Sex is not as big of a role in capabilities as people make it out to be."

Is the general perception that men can't multi-task? I don't seem to have a problem doing it.

I think this whole "men can multi-task thing" was proved when more men started staying at home to look after the children instead of the women. It's just chauvinist females and the older section of society that believe men can't multi-task surely?

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"I don't want to start anything, but even though mean can multitask, it is more common of an ability in women. It just is.However, men are better at spatial perception. Of course, all of these differences are relatively minimal when compared to things like genetics and environment. Sex is not as big of a role in capabilities as people make it out to be."

All men can multi-task. But most women that most men are lazy."

" But most women that most men are lazy." - You need to learn to focus on ONE task, putting together coherent sentences

Men can multitask, just watch the Battle Report #2 vid for Starcraft 2, Good micro is the ultimate in multitasking"

In men, a higher IQ is correlated with more gray matter, which deals with processing instructions.
In women, a higher IQ is correlated with more white matter, which is the connections from one part of the brain to another.
Therefore, women are better multitaskers than men on average.

That picture of using the controller is really only one task. It's still complex for most non gamers, however that's the task of playing a videogame and it's not multitasking.

"I don't want to start anything, but even though men can multitask, it is more common of an ability in women. It just is.However, men are better at spatial perception. Of course, all of these differences are relatively minimal when compared to things like genetics and environment. Sex is not as big of a role in capabilities as people make it out to be."

Oh god, another one of these threads.

Whats the thing on the top right Scooper '128 ACH / 2455 '

Whats funny is people think women can actually multitask when they can't I've seen so many women incapable of doing two things at once, like chewing gum and walking, or talking on their cellphone and driving or hell breathing and driving for that matter.

What does that have to do with multi-tasking? Absolutely nothing. Actual multi-tasking is impossible.

The human brain is only capable of thinking of and focusing on one task at a time. Some people are really good at switching between things very quickly as to seem like they are doing multiple things at the same time but it is an illusion. They are actually just doing multiple things one at a time very quickly.

Evidence appears to be solid....

You can't deny it!

CLEARING UP MISCONCEPTIONS:


The idea that "women can multitask and men can't" is an urban myth. There is NO truth to it, not one single grain. Not only has there been absolutely no research done on the matter, but it's widely known that human's can't multitask. At all. NOBODY CAN.

To clarify, I am defining multitasking as "concentrating on two things at once". What you can do is "time sharing", where you constantly move back and forth between concentrating on two activites for short bursts of time. This is not multitasking, this is time sharing. It is impossible for a human to concentrate on two things at once. IMPOSSIBLE.

You can perform two activities at once, all humans can. More than two in fact. These are called "automatic processes". You can concentrate on one thing and do another, but you are not concentrating on the other. Familiar, simple or repetitive tasks can be governed by automatic processes. Things like driving your car while you think about something, making a sandwich, these can be automated processes. Playing chess can not.


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Must read thread before I post in future.

I would like to thank CoverlessTech for being here to clean up this mess of a thread.

Hey, CoverlessTech, I'm not doubting what you are saying, but can you provide me some evidence of this?  I'm interested in Psychology, but I haven't taken a course in the subject yet.  Like...I don't know, evidence from a reputable site (like wikipedia!!) or something?  I just want to see if this is true.

The controller has spoken.

There was enough proof that time I talked on the phone AND pissed at the same time.

That picture was awesome.

"Women are better at multi-tasking" is an urban myth. It is difficult to do more tasks than one at the same time because concentration and focus is divided; and this applies to all people.

CoverlessTech - This time-switching idea of yours - I've heard that's how computers deal with information, but have not heard that one's brain runs at a particular speed. I have a fascination for psychology too! Brainwave activity suggests that human thought processes are far more complex than successive processes inside a multi-tasking computer.

You ask people to go and read, or even go to university to learn about your idea, when it would be far easier for you to present some links backing you up. For example, I could include this link here that experimentally describes how different areas of the brain concurrently process different areas of memory (i.e hippocampus and striatum),  by a published professor of psychology. This research would seem to conflict with your view.

I think you are also hazy in defining what a single "thing" is. When driving for example, the brain must comprehend and react to a huge variety of sensory stimulus from both inside and outside of the car. The driver also has to constantly deal with the stimulus and simultaneously transfer it to muliple mechanical outputs to control the vehicle.

The human brain is like a CPU only much much MUCH faster. You can only process one piece of information at a time.

It's like your computer running iTunes and an internet browser at the same time. It isnt running them at the same time at all, just switching between the two rapidly. (dont give me any smartass rubbish about multiple cores. This is assumone one core, like your brain)

How do you know this? You supplied no links of your own, or criticisms of the link I included - just a re-statement of the computer brain "fact".

Woudn't you think the human mind far more advanced than a computer processor? Processors never get quicker when repeating the same task again and again, when humans certainly do. Here's an article that talks about automaticity, orthis one that discusses the degradation of function through multi-tasking.

Why is brainwave activity so complex? We are only beginning to understand how the electrical signals swarm inside the human mind. One thing's for sure - multiple neurons can and do fire at the same time in the brain.

If neuroscientists admit they don't know how the brain works and are only scratching the surface, how do you know?

You're talking about a completely different subject. Most of this deals with how our brain adjust and interprets information. This function of the brain is what actually leads people like CL60 to believe they are multi-tasking. What I am saying has nothing to do with that. I am saying the brain can't focus on more then one thing(thought if you well) at any given instance in time. Try thinking about a sandwhich you are going to make and think about a story at the same time. You can think of the sandwhich and then think of the story, then think of the sandwhich again and then the story again but your brain can't think and process both at the exact same instance in time. As I write this paragraph there are sounds around me and people talking but I don't fully understand what they are saying because I am focused on writing this, if I switch focus to their talking I will lose focus on writing.

Like I already said, it's possible to do more then one thing at a time, the brain just doesn't focus on both. It's all about automated process and learning. Once your brain becomes accustomed to some task it takes less time to process it therefore you can switch to another task and back again really fast without losing much productivity(for lack of a better word).

Rubbing your belly and patting your head is a good example. If you have never tried it before it is very difficult. But once you train your brain to rub your belly and then train it to pat your head the brain can easily switch back and forth so fast that you can do both at the same time.

The brain is different then a CPU. I not going to say faster or more advance, I believe different is the best term to use in the comparison. Like you said it does learn and it does get faster with repetition, unlike a CPU, that is what allows us to switch tasks very fast.

Agnogenic highlights this when he said his typing slowed as he talked at the same time. He is very well versed in typing and very good at speaking, so he can actually switch between the two very quickly. But with the switching comes some degradation of the task, his brain has to switch focus between the two, if he was truly able to multi-tasks(focusing on two things at the same instance) he would have been able to preform each of the tasks at the same time at the same speed as doing them individually.

I am not saying I know everything about the brain. But neuroscientists will agree that you can't think of two different tasks at the exact same instance in time.

I guess it all depends on your own definition of multi-task. If it's as simple as standing up and waving your hand at the same time ok but I don't take the term as literal as that.

Exactly - If you've been making sandwiches every day for years, you can automate the part of your conciousness that makes a sandwich while focusing on another task while you're making it.

Of course I'm going to be angry, you are pissing me off, because clearly what you think multi-tasking is, is completely wrong. Beings as multitasking is is taking multiple processes and switching between them doing their tasks on a processor in an efficient fashion. Yet you seem to not understand that. Because you are a moron who just loves to argue.

It's clear that some people can multi-task and saying something stupid like somebody singing and playing guitar at the same time is just switching really fast between the two is just dumb. Because clearly notes and words can be played at the same time, look at that, multi-tasking. Doing 2 things at the same time = multi-tasking REGARDLESS if you are switching between the two at a fast pace. So just shut the hell up, my god. Actually with guitar/singing you are doing 3 things, singing, strumming and using your other fingers to play the notes.

Oh my God I'm moving my eyes and typing. You know that's 2 different tasks.

*is confused by controller, brain explodes*

Not sure if ive ever doubted that men cant multitask.