Men can multitask too

[ErrolTheDragon]

Recently published research shows men can multitask as well as women. Follow up study perhaps should be to examine if there's a sex difference in ability to make excuses?

Comment in The Times today (I've not looked to see if her predictions about the below the line comments are correct yet)

Let’s drive those shirkers out of their man cave

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lets-drive-those-shirkers-out-of-their-man-cave-6rwv0ngnf?shareToken=56f02e56f5974592caec030e8482fe64

And the paper itself

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0220150

Thanks

'For years women roamed free throughout much of Asia, Europe and Africa, and weren’t domesticated by men until around 4,000 BC. Man first domesticated woman having looked her up and down and concluding: “I can get more work out of this than a donkey.”'
Love the piece in the Times.

The second best line is the one right at the end:
Giles Coren is away

V funny

Note this in study
'Multitasking resulted in substantial performance costs across all experimental conditions without a single significant gender difference in any of these ten measures, even when controlling for gender differences in underlying cognitive abilities'

I assume they mean gender rather than sex there

As the jury is very much still out on whether the observed differences in things like spacial awareness are nature or nurture.

That aside. Men have to multitask in a lot of jobs. So yes, they chose not to do it in other circs.