Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood

• MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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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  • Snowpix@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    SQUIRREL? WHERE?!

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    • Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not easily distrac… - oh, wow, a blue car!

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  • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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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    • Apollo@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨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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    • MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fair point. I hadn’t thought of it that way.

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• BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨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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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can I tune my brain scheduler?

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, sadly it is running in Windows Task Scheduler.

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• Sho@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or you hate when ppl can walk, talk and eat

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    • Misconduct@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ew you talk with your mouth full

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      • uis@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ew you can’t multitask

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• rottingleaf@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨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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• mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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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  • Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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    • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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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  • Apollo@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sure, it’s one study.

    I could go on, this is hardly an area lacking in research.

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• SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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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