عنوان درس: انجام همزمان چند کار، به بهره وری لطمه می زند

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Researchers at Stanford University in the United States divided a group of over 250 students into light or heavy media multitaskers. Light multitaskers focus on just one or two sources at a time - listening to music while working for example. Heavy multitaskers watch online videos, surf the web, talk or text on their mobiles, and write or read, all at the same time. Lead researcher Cliff Nass wanted to see how this would affect the way their brains work.

Clifford Nass: "You would think that people who are multitasking with all these media at once would be great at ignoring irrelevant information. However we discovered they are suckers irrelevant for information, so they're much worse than low multitaskers at ignoring the irrelevant."

Not only that, but multitaskers are worse at organising and sorting information, and worse at switching from one task to another. The findings have left the scientists with something of a mystery - why do people multitask at all? They say that in an increasingly demanding work environment, expecting staff to be constantly available by email and instant message whilst doing their jobs may actually mean that productivity falls.

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media multitaskers
کسانی که در آن واحد از چند نوع رسانه استفاده می کنند

focus
تمرکز کردن

surf the web
نگاه کردن به سایت های مختلف اینترنتی، رفتن از یک سایت به سایت دیگر

ignoring
نادیده گرفتن

irrelevant information
اطلاعات نا مربوط

suckers for
در اینجا: کشته و مرده هر نوع اطلاعات ولو نا مربوط هستند

switching from one task to another
از انجام یک کار به کار دیگری رو می آورند

increasingly demanding work environment
در محیط کاری که انتظارات از شخص مرتبا بیشتر می شود

instant message
پیام فوری ( سرویسی در اینترنت که به استفاده کنندگان اجازه می دهد همزمان با اشخاص دیگر پیام کتبی رد و بدل کنند)

productivity falls
تولید و بهره وری کاهش می یابد