Why can't a man multi task?

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Rosexøxø · Accepted Answer

@nathandavis ’s answer helped me to build on to this topic, so I figured I’d have to just post it as my answer to this question. my answer: Yeah, I suppose MULTI TASKING would sum up to ‘doing more than one task.’ To go the extra mile and say: Multiple tasks at ONE EXACT MOMENT, seems impossible because humans only have two hands and can only be at one place at one time, with the exception of obviously traveling. With that said, ofc people can do multiple tasks (multitask), just not all at one instantaneous moment like an octopus with many arms, or two conjoined twins, doing two activities in the same vicinity. Humans having two halves of brains, doesn’t mean we can do two separate things at the same exact instance. Maybe seconds apart if they’re simple, but if more technical, they’d require more time focusing on them in a longer duration. If someone is given a deadline and many chores I would consider that multitasking. 🤷‍♀️ I am not even sure anything in nature can perform two processes in the same second or few seconds ;-; A person who reflexively goes to catch a falling item off the table can be super focused, and to the same effect, could not do anything else or even shout in that same second. They don’t breathe… They don’t blink. They wouldn’t know what someone else in the room did, or if they (that other person) saw that Hence, why they’d ask the other person, “Did you see that? I caught it!” All gleefully lol They hold their breath. People would exclaim, “My heart stopped.” 😬😂 They’re eyes remain open, in order to contact the item and lock into it, not even able to predict its set path/trajectory. No calculations are made. They simply reach their hands/arm out And reach for that item. This is also why people sometimes MISS the falling item. It’s not so much the “time,” Than it is their lack to grasp the object, MEANINGFULLY/ intentionally/ consciously. It’s the same concept when people say, “Think fast” and toss a sports item or play-item at a friend. That other person may very well miss the item, since not having the time for their brain to shift from what they were doing BEFORE, and focused on to the new item being flung at them in just seconds. Some will put arms up to block And some others, will be lucky enough to do a ‘grasp motion’ with their hands, and make the catch… a very lucky and uncoordinated catch. It’s probably why sports teams THRIVE and  have higher chances of winning,  when the plays are  discussed  in advance- By coaches, or team captains, And when ALL the players actively VOCALIZE their teammates’ names BEFORE making passes. They acknowledge, and they commence. At that point, it is muscle memory in action, in the speed/ rush of the game and memory from training. Their only ‘focus’ is to observe the object briefly and align their hands or footing to maneuver the ball along, as they would have in practice. Some players OFC think of new plays, but they’re not forced to think lightning fast.. All players may have slightly varied speeds of processing thoughts But the faster ones, will obviously make those “Right place; right moment,” adjustment play, in order to rebound the ball or sports item to its initial goal. in summary: They can do multiple processes in a certain reasonable deadline,  simple  processes in a few seconds, but with the requirement of time for shifting focus, and adjustments in processes when there is planning/ muscle memory/ acknowledgement/ and like 1% of critical thinking (possibly) slightly faster than, other opponents (also humans). Multi tasking- in the sense of doing say, a 100 of 4 complex processes at ONE time or one second, is just physically/ logically improbable. If anyone says they can multitask, have them speak to 4-6 DIFFERENT people, about different subjects, in the same time frame, or the same amount of seconds, and answer their questions or recall to you what they all said. Not possible.

Aerissa_Jade · Accepted Answer

Several studies have shown multi-tasking isn't a real thing, except in cases where you can do more than one thing without using your brain actively, such as walking and talking at the same time. If you need to use direct brain focusing for hard things, such as driving or computer programming. You can only do one thing at a time, instead people who think they are multi-tasking are in reality just doing ultra fast task switching.

Which isn't a good thing because it means the brain has to stop, focus and start new task, stop, focus and start new task and that is significantly slower than focusing on tasks in a linear mode.

Too much task switching ends up making people have a hard time focusing on one task.

MrOracle · Accepted Answer

The reason is evolution.

The tasks that men needed to perform required him to focus - war-fighting, hunting dangerous game, or working in dangerous jobs such as mining or construction. You can't afford to be distracted, or the penalties are often very high, including death.

Women tended not to have tasks and duties with such high stakes, but tended to have more tasks, and so women tended to be more optimized around multi-tasking - looking after young children WHILE tending to the farm animals or cooking a meal or washing clothes. For the woman, focusing on a single task to the exclusion of everything else wasn't important, but being able to keep track of several different things at once was.

One example of this playing out: when the phone system was still new, it wasn't automated. You had human operators who had to manually connect circuits together at a central office (or a series of central offices) so that your phone was connected to the phone of the person you were trying to call. Originally, phone operators were all men, but men proved to be lousy at the job. They struggled to keep track of everything going on and would focus on one thing and ignore others. So they hired a group of female operators as a test, and they were much better at the multitasking required for the job, so the men were all fired, and women hired to replace them, and that policy continued for several decades until human operators were eventually replaced by mechanical switching.

Chazmatazz269 · Accepted Answer

Men can multitask. It’s generally accepted that most women are better at it than most men though. There’s actually been quite a bit of research leading to that generalization and even more speculation as to why and how it is the case.
I lean toward the evolutionary biology explanation. We evolved this way through selective breeding due to our traditional responsibilities to our tribes, families and societies. For example, if an ancient man couldn’t properly focus, he may fail a hunt and his family goes hungry. If a modern man can’t properly focus, the bridge he’s building could collapse or the house he’s building could burn down. If an ancient woman gets too focused on foraging, her baby could die. If a modern woman gets too focused on tik tok, her baby could die. Ell oh ell!

AviatorTom · Answer

"Mythbusters" did a show about this many years ago (I couldn't find it on YouTube) that did prove that women are better at multi-tasking than men are. Men tend to do things more quickly than women, though, and move on to the next thing to do, while women tend to do two or more things at the same time, so men and women tend to accomplish the same collection of things in similar times.

This is not always true though. My SO is horrible at multi-tasking while I'm pretty good at it.

HavicZero · Answer

Multitasking is impossible. Women like to jump up and down on this concept because they say that they can multitask when they really can't.

Anyone with a brain knows that if you're a competent intelligent individual you focus on the task at hand so that it could be done completely and with quality to ensure accuracy and precision.

Trying to claim that you can multitask and then saying that it's a positive thing only proves that one you don't know what you're talking about and two you don't put any quality into the things that you actually put your hands to.

My favorite part of this question is that women gendered it to try to make men angry and frankly multitasking means that you are a low quality zero dimensional person that's only trying to antagonize people.

Get a life get some help and stop multitasking you idiot

FunkyMonkee · Answer

How many female drummers do you see out there? How many do you see that sing while drumming? I only know of one: Karen Carpenter, and her drumming isn't much more than tapping her foot.
I spend quite a bit of my time doing two or three things at the same time!
I had a college professor that taught English, math, computers, Psychology and t. v. production! I stopped in to see him at his office one day and he was typing away, a few hundred words a minute, without looking at his fingers or the screen and holding a completely different conversation with me and some woman that was there before me!! His fingers never stopped moving!
My singer used to read a book, watch t. v., hold a conversation and write songs all at the same time!

exitseven · Answer

Nobody can really multi task. You can really only do one thing at a time. People that multitask have to stop one task and switch to a different task. It takes so much time switching from task to task that it becomes very inefficient. When people multitask they are really doing many things badly.

Breanna_nonbinary · Answer

Multitasking isn’t actually possible. If it were then driving and using a phone would be legal. The brain can handle only one thing at a time. Thus the reason it’s so hard for the left and right sides of the brain can’t do things independently. People think multitasking is a thing but actually it’s doing multiple things in succession.

RoastedToast · Answer

Because we are simple man, we cave man do thing then do other thing. Is big too complicated for our small one track brain. One trick cave men only do one at time. We do one task we tunnel vision unga Bunga bonk it with our big shiny sticks enough until something happen. Don't question how our big brain work as not enough smashing. Why can't wamen singular task? Don't need brain if brain process using floppy disks and running on windows 97 and chatting to you using Microsoft explorer in 2003

Orion76 · Answer

Who Said men can’t multi task? The same scientist that thinks a woman’s brain is the size of a squirrel’s? Multi tasking is a skill that a man or a woman can master and a lot of it is muscle memory. Even the most stressful mental multitasking jobs like Air Traffic Control ATC thousands of lives depend on those men and women.

DaveJord · Answer

See men can multi-task... but we prefer to do the 1 thing really well inside of 50 things half assed, when know the other 49 things do not really matter as long as we do the 1 thing really well, the other 49 things take care of themselves.

Guy13 · Answer

That’s what women are for. We’re good with the main and the plain provision and you can multitask the monies, bills, kids, cars. Make sure financially you are good so not total hell for you

HaveNoName · Answer

Outside the physiological explanatuons, let me give my 2 cents from the corporate world.

Many people claim they multitask. The fact remains that the result of "multitaskers" is always substandard or erroneous.

Same holds true for "the wife" in the kitchen. To some extent they ARE indeed better than us, but that is because they know it better.

JamesDiaz11 · Answer

Because our attention to things is far deeper than a woman's. It's like comparing a sniper rifle to a machine gun, and shaming the sniper rifle for not peppering the entire neighborhood with inaccurate fire instead of aiming for headshots.

Anonymous · Answer

Multi tasking isn’t really a thing. Men prefer to just get one thing done at a time. While it may seem like you’re getting a lot done at once you would pretty much get it done at the same time it would take a man to do the same things if he did everything one after another. It’s less stress compared to a lot of women trying to “multitask.” Plus you probably miss out on some details about things because you’re mind is on a million things rather than that one task at hand.

crossdressingrihno · Answer

Why should we?
It’s inefficient. Think of it like being on the phone while driving. You can do several things at the same time but because your not paying full attention to the task you wind up with accidents.

OfMiceandMen · Answer

What do you mean? I am stirring my coffee and scratching my head at the same time trying to figure out where your going with this... if that's not multitasking?

Adam1978 · Answer

That's a fucking myth, we can multi task as good as women. If not better we just do it with other tasks.

NamerOfStars · Answer

They can- just not as well as women (on average). It's all down to how are brains are wired; you could just as easily ask "Why can't a woman focus on one thing?".

Ms_Facesitter · Answer

Ask him about his day while he's driving. Multitasking!

mobiusforniner · Answer

Because he's a puss cake. Real men can. Which is why I am a pilot. For starters, pilots aren't usually arrogant dicks. But if someones an arrogant dick, theyre probably a pilot. Lol

AmandaYVR · Answer

I'd tell you why, and about the brain differences between male and female brains, but you're anon, and I don't bother with anons (unless the topic is truly sensitive.)

NathanDavis · Answer

my job is to multitask... took me long to answer this question, though... I was busy with work

WindAtMyBack · Answer

How says men can't multi-task? I'm a huge multi-tasker. I know a lot of other men who are also.

Anonymous · Answer

Absurd. I can burn water while ignoring children as well as any woman.

jshm2 · Answer

Because we do not waste time on such trivial matters that girls gossip about.

TallAnon · Answer

We can. Women are more proficient at it in general, but that's only statistics.
I often play two games while working, chatting to a friend and replying to work messages, sometimes while in a call. We definitely have the ability.

Red-Blaze · Answer

This is old but gold https://youtu. be/29JPnJSmDs0

Hassan_8 · Answer

Because we concentrate on each task to do it better

Cassie88 · Answer

I can't multitask either, so I don't think it has all that much to do with gender.

TheVigilantFox · Answer

Men can multitask, I can do multiple things at one time.

Aiko_E_Lara · Answer

It seems that way because they don't find themselves to be working with a lot of minor tasks women usually have a work with. They have one big and hard task most of the time.

TheSpaceGnome · Answer

Premise is false. I can multitask very well.

Fireguy17 · Answer

I do it all the time, it's part of our job that you have to do that.

Fuentes · Answer

I don't know why but I can but as I get older it has gone down so maybe we're just not supposed too lol

LiamJHayden · Answer

Says who? Just watch someone like Richie Kotzen or Ty Tabor play intricate guitar parts while singing to see that men can and do.

Exterminatore · Answer

Women are neurologically wired to be better at it. Women do seem to excel at multi tasking.

Asking_for_knowledge · Answer

we always multi task because we’re always busy thinking about pussy

Anonymous · Answer

It's not that men can't multitask, but rather that women are incapable of focusing. That's why we see so many women applying makeup while driving.

Minahh · Answer

I don't know 🤷‍♀️ they're stupidier than women anyways. They think they can lie to a woman, while we see right through their bullshit. Laughable.

Anonymous · Answer

It's better to focus on one thing at a time.

clampfan101 · Answer

It depends on the man and what multiple tasks he’d be trying to do together.

Hallix26 · Answer

We're not fully incapable, but women are naturally better.

KrakenAttackin · Answer

Right, men build and run the world but we "can't multi task"😏😏😏

peedy · Answer

Why can't women focus on one thing? Our brains are wired differently

Kingofkings1992 · Answer

Pretty daft assertion. Generalizations based on gender alone are always faulty. Why can’t women drive?

Anonymous · Answer

We can. Stop believing the masses and random internet articles so easily.

Anonymous · Answer

in the words of gerard butler because men are simple

Anonymous · Answer

I think because Females never get Worried as much about things as much as Men do.

BeMuse · Answer

That's just feminist mythology.

Degenerate · Answer

I jerk off whilst crying all the time

BobbieBoy666 · Answer

Why can't a woman multitask. ?

Dav1dTh0ma389 · Answer

Oh, they can, my dad's really good at it

Mansearching · Answer

I'm a guy. I can multitask

Dargil · Answer

I think @MrOracle gets it.

es20490446e · Answer

Cause my brain is optimized for focus.

RockyHammock · Answer

Probably for the same reason a women cannot drive

aaron210419 · Answer

I'm actually fairly good at multitasking

Anonymous · Answer

Another GAG fact. lol

Anonymous · Answer

They can. That's a myth.

AngryCarl2 · Answer

Our brains aren't wired that way.

OddBeMe · Answer

I didn’t get that, what was it you asked?

Äxlbäksölöl · Answer

We can? What do you mean

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