Women are better at multitasking then Men?

Opinion:

That's the claim being made by a team of British researchers. "We have all heard stories that either men can't multitask or that women are exceptionally good at multi-tasking," says British psychologist Keith Laws, a professor at the University of Hertfordshire. But Laws and his colleagues couldn't find any research that had been done to prove or disprove the theory. So they set up a study to settle the matter. This might be a fact found from the researches. However, their sample data is too limited to have this generalization. They must have a larger quantity sample to prove this theory was right. This theory was also supported by the media in movies where a perfect CEO women handles her job, phone, household and company altogether. Thus this generalization is too some extent false.



Article:

Researchers did a study last year in which 50 male and 50 female students were given eight minutes to perform simple tasks like math problems, finding a restaurant on a map and sketching a strategy as to how they would find a lost key in an imaginary field—all while receiving a phone call that they had the choice whether to answer or not, where answering meant being given an additional general knowledge test.

The female students ended up performing admirably, while the men did average. The same researchers attributed this result to the notion that women are just plain old better at reflecting on a problem and juggling other tasks at the same time.
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