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Study finds people who multitask often bad at it

Washington : DC : USA | 3 months ago  
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The people who multitask the most are the ones who are worst at it. That's the surprising conclusion of researchers at Stanford University, who found multitaskers are more easily distracted and less able to ignore irrelevant information than people who do less multitasking. "The huge finding is,...
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