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‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 92 points 2 years ago (24 children)

Maybe a hot take, but this goes for everyone. I see older people that can’t stay off their phones, and have little to no ability to multitask while doing it.

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  • [–] 73 points 2 years ago (19 children)

    Nobody can multi task. I wish this stupid myth would die.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    "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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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Can't upvote this enough, I have had ppl literally bragging to me about their ability to "multi-task" 🙄

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years 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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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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.

    But I'm just some dude it's not like I've read any papers on it but that's what it feels like for me.

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  • [+] -15 points 2 years 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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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    Where I live older people don't know how turn on phone. They watch tv instead. Those who have some sanity left also go outside, sit on benches, talk with each other and keep your bike from being stolen.

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