Just out is a study of multi-tasking which confirms basically that if you try to do more than one thing at a time you fail miserably. The article carries weight because it is scientifically constructed. The idea that if you do 2 things at once you will somehow get twice as much out as you put in is, and always has been, rubbish. Children who grow up in a bilingual society do not simply learn 2 languages. Their linguistic ability in both languages is seriously impaired when compared with children learning only one language. Or, to take the example in the article, driving and talking on a mobile phone seriously compromises your ability to drive (not to mention the garbage that comes out of your mouth).
The best way to learn and assimilate what you have learned is to do it in silence and with singularity of purpose.
All of a sudden the notion that women can multi-task makes sense to me!
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