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>a 2009 study showed that people who do a lot of media multitasking (texting while watching TV and shit) perform worse on tests when compared to people don't do as much media multitasking

So, all this distraction shit will obviously hamper how your kid grows up, in a formative brain.

How are you going to raise your kid in a technoshit age?

>> No.1588083

no television

>> No.1588081

>/lit/- not literature

>> No.1588087

I'm going to homeschool my kid.

And by homeschool, I mean lock him in a room with the western canon 23 hours a day.

>> No.1588090

tests should adapt

>> No.1588092

Dur. People who "media multitask" a they say obviously have low attention spans. What do you expect?

>> No.1588093

>>1588087

then he'll be awkward as fuck sociallly


you just can't win

>> No.1588094

its concentration
they have to do that shit because they can not sustain paying attention

>> No.1588097

they should do all the tests at once

>> No.1588101

will go to private school, no cell phone, no tv, no pokemon card games etc.

>> No.1588104

Keep them in a tower, no social interaction.

>> No.1588105

>>1588092
you don't get how EVERYBODY does, this though. That's the point of this thread. how you'll monitor this shit as a parent

>> No.1588107

>>1588093
everyone else are the awkward ones
what is accepted as normal in the adolescent social world is absurd
that's why everyone should go smash their televisions with crowbars

or maybe we could use them as military weapons, slowly mind fucking the people of an enemy nation

>> No.1588111

Correlation does not imply causation

>> No.1588108

unless I can be cloned I don't really care

>> No.1588118

>>1588111
Don't forget to inadvertently insult yourself with the next post you make.

>> No.1588121

>>1588111
although true, this case is a bit different

are you suggesting we have created media-multitasking because we have low attention spans?

>> No.1588123

>implying I'll have sex

wat

>> No.1588127

>>1588121
He literally has no clue what he's saying. He's trying to argue tit for tat on /sci/ but is failing miserably.

>> No.1588131

whichever one of you that doubts early childhood brain development is hugely consequential is an obvious retard.

>> No.1588136

>implying we should father or mother children

We're the rejects of the technology age. Shameless introverts slowly mining our way to intellectual pursuits in what appears to be a vain world. Unable to enjoy anything.

How will we even find men or women? Aren't most of us gay?

>> No.1588145

>>1588131
The guy who I'm arguing with doesn't want to believe that constant distraction affects not only how well kids learn but also how their brain absorbs information. Which in this case, is through gadgets and what have you.

I don't know why anybody would actively argue against that

>> No.1588149

>>1588145
idk why even bother with that guy

>> No.1588150

>>1588136
i think neuter is a better term

the way we use technology has abused our brains into indifference

of course there is no proving this, as we don't know what we would be like without all the nonsense
nature vs nurture i suppose
time to go live in the woods and mail bombs to people
break out dem aviators!

>> No.1588161

I think the problem is not the multitasking, is the tests, which are based on a model of knowledge that is now obsolete.

Long life the new flesh.

>> No.1588177

>raise my kid
>implying my actions will ever result in the creation of new human life, no matter what I try

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1588181

Why the hell did you post this in /lit/? GTFO to /g/ pseudoint.

>> No.1588186

>>1588181
have you ever BEEN to /g/?
it is horrifying
HORRIFYING

>> No.1588189

I media multitask all the time.

Perhaps I should stop...

>> No.1588193

>How are you going to raise your kid in a technoshit age?
The same way I'd raise them in any other age: gross negligence.

>> No.1588198

>>1588193
you shouldnt have kids if you do that.

>> No.1588200

>>1588193

I would have lol'd, but my recently wisdom-less mouth hurts too much.

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>>1588198

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1588212

Goddamn this thread now has me paranoid that I've ruined my own concentration.

>> No.1588252

>>1588121
Not the guy that posted the correlation statement but I agree with him.
This study essentially says that people that can focus will do well on tests. Haven't we always known this?

>> No.1588269

>>1588252
you assume that's what the study says.

>> No.1588289

My mind wanders every 5 seconds even posting on 4chan.

Right now as I'm typing this I'm already thinking about some stupid shit I have to do and I'm hungry and I haven't fapped since yesterday.

I think it's normal, to an extent, but I think its far far easier to just wile away a whole fucking day just refreshing 4chan than anything else.

>> No.1588293

>>1588269
from the information op gave us, yeah
and I would say infer because I am assuming op is not a retard and he worded it correctly.
The people who multitask are the people that have their music, facebook, and are texting while they "study". The guy who doesn't multitask is the guy that sits down with a highlighter and flash cards and actually studies. Also notice how op doesn't post any source or link to where he found this information.

>> No.1588307

The more you multitask, the worse you get at it. That goes with any kind of multitasking.

http://www.whatsbestnext.com/2010/03/the-more-you-multitask-the-worse-you-get-at-multitasking/

>> No.1588309

My concentration's been fucked for years. I can't even do homework unless I'm almost entirely deprived of outside stimuli. If the TV is on, it's a bust. If there's music on, no go.

My fiancee is exactly the opposite. She can't study unless she's blasting music, watching TV, texting, so on and so forth.

Which is why I never do homework in the house.

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1588312

first we shape out tools, and then our tools shape us.

we shaped retarded tools, and in turn we are becoming retarded.

- marshall mclhaan

>> No.1588324

There's no such thing as multitasking in humans. The brain just doesn't work that way. You may be frying an egg while talking on the phone and watching at the same time but you're doing is rapidly changing your focus. This has a detrimental effect because over time it lowers your attention span.

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>>1588324
>There's no such thing as multitasking in humans.

your body is multitasking.
right now.

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>>1588378
>this makes me feel better about the 5 tabs i have up right now

>> No.1588427

A CAPSGUY STUDY IN 2011 SHOWED THAT HE COULD CONCENTRATE BETTER ON READING WHEN HE WAS TAKING A SHIT, RATHER THAN TAKING A PISS.

THIS TEST MUST APPLY TO EVERYONE ELSE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD, I SHALL NOW POST IT ON 4CHAN TO PURPORT IT AS INDISPUTABLE FACT.

>> No.1588429

>>1588293
not really. you are assuming doing a lot of media multitasking has no effect on underlying brain function.

>> No.1588440

>>1588427
You read while shitting?
And I'd thought so highly of you.
You, Caps?
You?
{spoiler]Disappointment: the new scent from Vdubby[/spoiler]
it smells like shit

>> No.1588458

>>1588440
IT WAS THE FIRST THING THAT CAME TO MY HEAD. WHEN I AM OUT, I READ AS I SHIT, BECAUSE I CAN'T PUT MY KINDLE IN MY BACK POCKET AS I AM SHITTING.

>> No.1588573

You can have a 'hyperlink' mind and a linear mind. Just read regularly for a long period of time.