As someone in my discord server said - β€œthe best way to make politicians anti-facial recognition might be to use it on them”.

@unimagine On the one hand this is stupid because being on your phone or computer doesnt mean you arent paying attention.

On the other hand if it pisses off politicians and gets them in trouble for stupid shit maybe it will get them to hate facial recognition and start taking it seriously... so maybe its stupid in the most brilliant of ways...

@freemo @unimagine Scientifically speaking, the human brain cannot do real multitasking, so they are not really paying attention.

This guy knows about the question 😁

hbr.org/2010/12/you-cant-multi

@beanface42

For starters, an opinion piece is not science. Second, any claim that we cant do multitasking would have to find the best multitasking performers out of a large group then compare the performance over long periods when not multitasking. Something I havent really seen any studies do, so there is no science that shows **everyone** cant multitask.

What general studies I have seen shown, at least among intelligent groups (like doctors) that moderate levels of multitasking produces the greatest output. That is, focusing on just one thing, or focusing on too many is detrimental, that the ideal overall performance is achieved by some moderate middle ground when it comes to multitasking. For example shown in this study:

pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs

It is also shown that multi-tasking is a learned skill (so only certain people in a population can do it) and that the skill is closely related to the activity of ones prefrontal cortex:

sciencedirect.com/science/arti

@unimagine

@freemo thanks for the links! Seems a tough read but I will take the time !

Personally, I found that segmentation of work, like suggested by the Pomodoro technique more efficient! I must be wired for that 😬

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@beanface42 There is no doubt different people work best at varying levels of multitasking. But even the pomodoro method is multitasking at a high granularity (the context switching is less often). So there is still some degree of multitasking that cant be avoided.. its just a sliding scale of how much.

I think it has a lot to do with your ability to context switch and boredom. Context switching should be frequent enough that boredom of doing a single task doesnt overwhelm you, but not so often you become ineffective.

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@freemo @beanface42 people have had their attention spans mostly ruined. it can take a while (and severe discipline, which is never any fun) to raise it back up.

@icedquinn @freemo true, and your are holding one of the main culprits in your hand πŸ˜…β€¦and me too!

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