Sounds fake but OK.
If you’re a woman, you’re probably a pretty good multi-tasker.
In fact, you’re probably sitting scrolling through your phone now while simultaneously ghosting eight men, cooking a breast of chicken, and waiting for Netflix to stop buffering so you can finally watch that iconic episode of The Great British Bake Off from 2011.
Standard Friday night in, tbh.
Women being better multi-taskers than men has always been a thing – and whether there’s actually any truth to it is kind of irrelevant considering people are just going to go ahead and keep saying it anyway.
However, Harvard Business Review have only gone and burst all of our doing-loads-of-things-at-the-same-time bubbles by saying that there’s apparently no proof that women are better multi-taskers than men.
How rude.
The study required both men and women to complete a task while doing some other things at the same time and found that both genders were equally as bad.
Shocking stuff altogether.
The study’s authors said:
“To address these concerns, we developed a computerised task — The Meeting Preparation Task (CMPT) — that was designed to resemble everyday life activities and, at the same time, that was grounded in the most comprehensive theoretical model of multitasking activities.”
And everyone was as equally shocking at them.
Grand so.
Don’t believe a word of it but grand.
