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Who Do You Think..........

pattypeep — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:28:55 GMT

......is the best at multi tasking? Men or women? My dh is awful. I don't dare even ask a question if he's watching TV or whatever because he can't watch and answer at the same time. Ouy. I think women are because we have had to juggle jobs, children, home, etc. day in and day out.

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Suziepeach — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:30:51 GMT

Straight up, women!!!!

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QVCkitty1 — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:31:24 GMT

There are probably exceptions, but in my experience it's women hands down. We don't usually have a choice,

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Peaches McPhee — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:32:19 GMT

I read some place that men's brains are not set up for multi-tasking, but women's brains are. Of course, there are always exception and you can't generalize.

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SeaMaiden — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:35:37 GMT

Oh, women for sure. My husband can only do one thing at a time. If infuriates me!

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hopi — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:37:42 GMT

Not a real fan of huge generalizations and sometimes multitasking is not always the best thing as we judge others who can't do it very well or at all. Maybe a fairer question is who might want to have more tasks completed?

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Pqfan — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:39:57 GMT

Women.

They bring home the bacon and fry it up in a pan lol

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makena — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:39:25 GMT

@SeaMaiden wrote:
Oh, women for sure. My husband can only do one thing at a time. If infuriates me!

Same here. And it's usually something that involves himself. 99 times out of 100, his focal point is me, me, me (meaning him, him, him).

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2blonde — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:43:21 GMT

I think in general that women are better, but I'm not including myself when I say that. I can do a lot in a short time, but I'm better at completing one task at a time, then moving on to the next. When I try to do too many things at once it makes me feel overwhelmed.....like I'm not accomplishing anything.

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hckynut — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:47:03 GMT

I have never found a reason for me to multi-task. My preference is, and always has been to focus on 1 thing at a time. The more serious the task, such as driving a motor vehicle on public roads, would be one example.

Sure, there were/are many times I could do more than 1 task(?) at a time, but I prefer keeping 100% of my focus directed exclusively on just the task at hand.

Having worked for over 25 years with only men, and running predominately male, adult hockey league for over half a century? Very simple and easy answer. The majority of the thousands of men in which I have been closely involved with over my years, 1 task at a time, to do correctly, is even a problem.

My vote says the ladies win this one. And yes, I do understand that being a mother requires that ability, and very often.

hckynut(john)

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pattypeep — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:49:45 GMT

@hckynut Good answer, John. LOL Love You.

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cherry — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:53:08 GMT

I multi task better ,but my husband had a job that required accuracy, within a 100,000 of an inch. So for accuracy ,he would win hands down every time, and I am tremendously proud and thankful for him, and I don't think it's a competition, we are just wired differently

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Moonchilde — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:54:22 GMT

I think it depends on the individual personality/wiring. Males who supervise, or who do things like dispatch or air traffic controllers, certainly multi-task well.

I think there's a difference between just doing multiple tasks in a day, and doing multiple things at the same time.

When working, I much preferred to do one thing at a time, and do it well and thoroughly - that was my happy place comfort zone. I could multi-task, and HAD to, but I used to say I could do three things decently, and occasionally four things for short bursts, but beyond that it was just overload, and I got cranky at than trying to remember more than three things at once for hours at a time.

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Bri21 — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:56:59 GMT

I can multi task and hopefully do it well.

whenever my husband has many things to do, he gets them all done efficiently.

It kind of all works out even, I guess. I sometimes feel overwhelmed and scattered, and he doesn't. I wonder why? Lol

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dooBdoo — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 00:42:11 GMT

I don't believd it's gender-specific. For the most part, my understanding is that this is specific to the person without regard to gender. It's more about how each person's brain works, and it doesn't mean one is better than the other. Also, it's interesting to read about multitasking, which actually -- for the brain -- is task switching. Productivity and quality can often suffer when we do many things at once... but, of course, we don't always have an option.

One has to wonder... do we have a preconceived notion that women should be able to "multitask" more than men, so we grow up with that expectation and as a result might see gender differences for that reason?

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StraytoStay — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 19:02:40 GMT

I saw a study on TV years ago that filmed different women and men given several office tasks to do in a set time. Each time the women would start one, such as making copies, then she'd start the next task like coffee, and so on while the men waited on the first task, or fumbled trying to do more. The women all did best. I'm sure it's out there on the net somewhere.

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makena — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 19:01:09 GMT

@hckynut I was curious as to see if you would chime in and what your opinion would be.

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151949 — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 19:04:35 GMT

Nurses. Male or female - nurses have to be extremely organized and able to juggle everything at once while also being ready for every small or large emergency. You can count on emergencies never happening one at a time.

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dooBdoo — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 19:07:26 GMT

@151949 wrote:
Nurses. Male or female - nurses have to be extremely organized and able to juggle everything at once while also being ready for every small or large emergency. You can count on emergencies never happening one at a time.

While I agree that nurses, and ER docs and staff, and other medical professionals need to be able to rapidly and efficiently task-switch, I disagree that it's more prevalent in one profession or field than in another.

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Moonchilde — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 19:09:03 GMT

I had a friend who said she believed she had adult ADHD who always claimed to be a brilliant multi-tasker (I never saw her at work).

I don't know about that, because in our office we (briefly) had an employee with full blown, medication-prescribed adult ADHD, who literally couldn't concentrate on *anything* for more than 7-1/2 minutes tops (more than 5 min., less than 10 min.). He not only was incapable of doing the job he was hired for because he couldn't sit down or shut up for more than 10 min., he disrupted everyone else so they couldn't work either. He wasn't there long. Multi-task? Not in a million years.