Re:Multitasking Doesn't Work
by joe_the_user on Friday October 08, 2021 @05:47PM
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"I think that multitasking between multiple tasks has been somewhat-generally known to not be possible (for most people) for a while now"
But what is a task? You emphasize the term and I have a general concept of what a task is in work and other contexts. But that seems too fluid to make broad statements about human behavior - even with studies combining two activities. How do we know one person's doing a task isn't another person's multitasking? It's intuitively plausible that two activities logically will be somewhat harder than doing each in sequence. But are all such combinations identical? A lot of challenging activities do involve the combination of subtasks - firefighters might break into a building looking for survivors while monitoring the situation of the building for safety. Just about any video involves satisfying multiple constraint simulateously, if they didn't, they'd be boring, etc.
But what is a task? You emphasize the term and I have a general concept of what a task is in work and other contexts. But that seems too fluid to make broad statements about human behavior - even with studies combining two activities. How do we know one person's doing a task isn't another person's multitasking? It's intuitively plausible that two activities logically will be somewhat harder than doing each in sequence. But are all such combinations identical? A lot of challenging activities do involve the combination of subtasks - firefighters might break into a building looking for survivors while monitoring the situation of the building for safety. Just about any video involves satisfying multiple constraint simulateously, if they didn't, they'd be boring, etc.