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GLASGOW — Warning: this study may result in a collective, “NO KIDDING!” from women across the world. It’s no secret that men and women use their brains differently, and there’s a lot of research out there that backs up these claims. Now, recent research finds that women’s brains are capable of multitasking, but men…not so much.
A study published in The Royal Society reaches the conclusion that men can’t multitask in an interesting way. Researchers asked their participants, 83 healthy individuals between 18 and 80, to walk on a treadmill. They were then asked to complete a tricky language test while walking. Infrared cameras used to watch the participants’ body movements show a difference between the way men and women swung their arms — but only while attempting the verbal test.
Neuroscientist and co-author of the study Tim Killeen explained the findings in an interview with AFP.
“When we added the verbal task, we observed that in men of all ages and women over 60, this symmetry broke down, with a reduction in right arm swing while the left arm carried on swinging normally,” he said.
The left side of the brain is believed to control the right arm as well as the language center of the brain, which is where that link comes in. When it came to men and older women, the researchers said that the language task seemed “to overwhelm the left brain to the extent that the movement of the arm on the right is reduced.”
The study did not go further into the topic or examine whether the inability for men to multitask also applied during other activities, but it’s safe to assume that it might. Other studies have made similar claims, such as that men are less organized than women are when they are switching between multiple tasks. It’s also possible that the ability to multitask varies depending on what kind of task is at hand.
While more research could be done to know for sure, there is without a doubt evidence in gender differences when it comes to multitasking.
Industrial engineering review in my company some years ago running equipment stations on assembly lines in various plants and operations.
Men ran the station focused on the assembly of components into and unloading of assembly from work station.
Women performed the following:
1.) Operated at a higher repeating daily output
2.) Picked up on sound changes in equipment
3.) Pocked up on vibration changes
4.) Able to talk to coworkers and supervisors to keep operation running, where men had to stop or would result in defects and injury.
5.) From statistical process control perspective the women alerted manufacturing engineers and maintenance staff to problems before they became equipment failures, defects, or injuries because they picked up on these changes we as could not. Even as the manufacturing engineers who designed the work station and the skilled maintenance staff who setup and maintained the equipment. We were no better than the male assemblers. Right to work state and everyone had extreme pride and concern considering we were building systems using solid propellant (rocket fuel) for soldiers and marines to use in combat.
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The Ignored Elderly if only we invested as much money, facilities and compassion like COViD for the elderly suffering from depression instead of just providing them with Wanna be Wonder drugs and releasing them the same nighr from self serving ERs to drive home or to their homes, streets or dangerous shelters and a hellish ending instead of providing them a save haven to die!