Women are officially better at multitasking
Women are consistently better at multitasking than men, it has been claimed by psychology experts.Boffins from the University of Hertfordshire say they've conducted a study into multitasking ability and found women come out top.
While men and women performed equally when they multitasked on simple maths and map reading tasks - as the tasks became harder the women far excelled the blokes.
In one test where people were asked to 'search for the lost key' by drawing on a piece of paper how they would search a field 70 per cent of women performed better than the average male.
However, this could just be because women have had much more practice looking for lost keys... and they know they are actually always in the bottom of their handbag.
Professor Keith Laws said: "The search for the lost key task, which involved giving the men and women a blank sheet of paper representing a field and asking them to draw how they would search for the key, revealed that women planned more strategically than men.
"I was surprised by this result given the arguments that men have better spatial skills than women."
The participants in the study (undergraduates at the University) had eight minutes to do several tasks at the same time, such as simple maths problems, map reading, answering a telephone caller asking general knowledge questions and showing the strategy they would use to search for an imaginary lost key in a field.
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University of Hertfordshire
"I was surprised by this result given the arguments that men have better spatial skills than women."
The participants in the study (undergraduates at the University) had eight minutes to do several tasks at the same time, such as simple maths problems, map reading, answering a telephone caller asking general knowledge questions and showing the strategy they would use to search for an imaginary lost key in a field.
LINKS
University of Hertfordshire
