2006-09-10 01:42:07 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
No, while it is true that some people can multitask and some cant, most studies show there is no difference between men and women. Neither is the ability distributed by age. Early studies into this phenomenon used situations and tasks that women where more familiar with and therefore better able to multitask but when the studies are of different situations and tasks the real distribution is revealed.
Incidental studies also show that in both men and women efficiency is reduced when multitasking
Time to relegate this myth to where it belongs.
That women have seized upon this to show there is something that they can do better than men, merely indicates something about their insecurities.
2006-09-10 01:47:56 · answer #1 · answered by phoneypersona 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
It's a throw back to our stone age ancestors. Women needed to nurture children, prepare food etc. so they developed an aptitude for multi-tasking. Men on the other hand needed to be focused on the sole task of hunting food and they evolved teamwork skills and spatial awareness (which is why they read maps and play chess better than women) and even today men and women still retain those same qualities. Women are better at multi-tasking whereas men prefer to finish one task thoroughly before moving on to the next task.
2006-09-10 16:07:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends. If both subjects are equally trained at a task, such as jet fighter pilots, then 70 percent of the time a woman will be able to cope more readily with multiple tasks. But as many other people have already said, this subject cannot be generalized, as there are no "standard" men or women in the world, we are all different.
2006-09-10 10:30:00 · answer #3 · answered by ~~Rina~~ 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Women can multi task but never get any job done properly, where as men can't multi task but generally do the jobs to a much higher standard.
I'm female..
2006-09-10 10:21:24 · answer #4 · answered by this_is_ska_wars 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I'd say in general that's true but I know some guys could easily multi-task better than myself. It depends on the task/s and the person. Generalizations don't work in all situations, just in general :)
2006-09-10 08:52:19 · answer #5 · answered by Nicole 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course women can multi-task better than men. They've had to do it from the beginning - when the men would go out and hunt they were hunting. Women often cleaned the kill, cooked it, and took care of children at the same time. Anyone that has had a small child knows you learn to listen for quiet as much as uncommon noises, and you are constantly checking on many different things. What this kid is doing in his room while the others are outside, whether the laundry needs to be moved from washer to dryer, what's going on in the kitchen and what the dog is doing. I think that carries over in the professional world as well, I can work on many different things at one time and not lose track of where I am on each project. I think it's funny when the guys pick up one thing at a time to me that would be boring.
2006-09-10 08:52:05 · answer #6 · answered by alis_n_1derland 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Multi-task is possible for anybody when performing routine work. Research,dangerous work, complicated work and similar requires mainly narrow focusing.Women are mostly engaged in the routine work.Martial arts require both qualities in one person.So because of task division
(social agreement) women have developed multi-task percepcion which is mainly used for governing, commanding and survey not for direct production of the new results(products of any kind, art,science,poetry,manufacture etc).
2006-09-11 11:02:26 · answer #7 · answered by oceangleam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is true. Since women tend to have of a more emotional side to them, they care about their work. In order to be efficient and successful, a person (women) must be able to handle more then one task in by staying organized and calm under pressure. Men are more simple. They have a job, get it done, go to the next.
Women also have the challenge of being stereotyped as not hard working as men so they have to be able to handle more in order to earn as much credibility and money as men.
2006-09-10 14:18:04 · answer #8 · answered by Me 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes women can multi-task better than men because they don't spend most of their time thinking about sex.
2006-09-10 11:19:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
most people think so, but I don't know if there is hard evidence of it.
However men are more focused and goal oriented, and thus consent rate better on a single task.
I wonder what the outcome would be if the task was to multi task, would men be better at it if it where a competition?
2006-09-10 08:46:27 · answer #10 · answered by ictus 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋