Are women better at multi-tasking than men?

[BusinessTech]

Are women better at multi-tasking than men?

How can we shift our perception to create a better reality? Caroline Webb, renowned leadership coach and economist, shared critical views on getting the most out of the human brain to have a better, more productive day, every day.

 

[Hamster]

You guys really need to work on better article titled if you want a response. Try this instead:

"Are men better at doing one thing at a time than women"

 

[ekske1]

You guys really need to work on better article titled if you want a response. Try this instead:

"Are men better at doing one thing at a time than women"

You suggested title doesn't fit either.

Rather go with something like Multitasking is a foppery.

 

[Hamster]

You suggested title doesn't fit either.

Rather go with something like Multitasking is a foppery.

My title will get way more infuriated estrogen fuelled clicks

 

[Lupus]

No one can truly multi task

 

[Nobody Important]

No one can truly multi task

Famous line from the Matrix if I remember correctly.

 

[krycor]

Women multi-task via parallel processing with the least context switching cost pending multiple factors (way brain wired up which differs from one to the other) where Men multi-task best with least context switching.. but where is the multi-task?

Well optimizing the context switch cost vs gains gotten by focusing on a single task you get efficiency gains.

This is why jobs which require actively monitoring multiple disparate systems/processes are a struggle for a guy and where context switching is slower but requires absolute concentration on one task endlessly have women finding it boring or mundane. Interestingly for seemingly unconnected systems women find ways systems influence each other which men just never got..

This is not to say every wo/man is wired up the same, just the way nature and hormones influence broad development. Much like personality tests, knowing what your threshold is for multi-tasking and how costly distractions are.. people should control environment better but most don’t.. so I find the guys watching YouTube in parallel to working and then wondering how to finish as much work as I do.. well.. immature or not understanding themselves and nature very well. I guess advantages of being introspective.

 

[3WA]

Every time a woman tells me I can’t multitask, I ask for a threesome.

It proves my point. Right now, I'm fighting multiple simultaneous sexual harassment suits.

 

[zippy]

I can multitask. I can walk with the wife down the street and simultaneously check out the hotties.

 

[Dan C]

I tried multi tasking once. Then realised falling over your own shoelaces is not worth it.

 

[Nobody Important]

I can multitask. I can walk with the wife down the street and simultaneously check out the hotties.

Was this you that the paparazzi's snapped:

Spoiler: NSFW

 

[Polymathic]

Women are better at task switching not multitasking. Majority of people in the world including women cannot multitask. There are however super multitaskers who make of I think 2.5% of the population and are able to truely multitask