Heavy multitaskers are worse at switching tasks
Stanford researchers tested people who constantly juggle media streams, expecting them to be switching champions. The opposite: heavy multitaskers were worse at filtering distractions and worse at switching tasks than people who do one thing at a time. Depth beats juggling, and this is the study behind that.
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