Multi-tasking can be a losing proposition but not to just to one person in particular but for the ones around you. How many times do you hear someone get into a car accident because they were on the phone while driving or a student hands in the wrong group assignment which jeopardizes his other classmates. This is something I see every day and do myself all the times but it can’t be help. Clifford Nass is definitely right when he says, “A tremendous amount of evidence shows that the brain does better when its performing tasks in sequence rather than all at once”. But it’s not just from Clifford’s facts that shows the difficulties of person’s memory plays a big part in multi-tasking, stating that a test showed a group of students who were ask to spend 30 minutes playing music, chatting, etc, and writing a short essay and afterwards another group did each task individually for 10 minutes and this group showed that they did better than the multi-tasking peers in the memory test. Multi-tasking just doesn’t cause one to make mistakes or interfere with other peoples doings but it can cause one’s mind to lose track of time, the layout of your day or even an important event. No one should disagree that multi-tasking disrupts and negates one mind unless they are a perfect human being. I agree that it does because the main thing it has interfered with was my school work.
For instance, essays and math problems; there is always a mistake every time I hand it an essay or math homework, but not just because there are an everyday mistake but because of what I did prior to me handing in my assignments, watching television while writing a 5 page paper for example led me to not writing in the right margins, misspelling easy words, or even writing my own name wrong. As for math problems, solving the wrong equations with the wrong steps on my homework can be a big problem on my tests. I have never thought to myself how bad multi-tasking can be until now. I am a very busy person...