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Project Management Supertaskers

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Posted on: May 31, 2010 06:47 PM | Permalink

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Shim Marom Project Manager Melbourne, Australia
First of all, great presentation, well done!

Secondly, and more importantly, having read the study (thanks for providing the links), I'm flabbergasted by the notion that any credible study / news item / research etc. will be reporting a 2.5% phenomena as being of any statistical substance worth mentioning.

The bottom line, as you correctly mention in your presentation, is that multitasking is a big, very big, no-no. Any other message if simply noise.

Cheers, Shim.
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Josh Nankivel Engineering Project Manager| Apple Sioux Falls, Sd, United States
Thanks Shim. I was a little blurry on that too, but they claimed right in the paper that 2.5% was statistically significant....I guess that means they can justify really small error bars?


Either way, I decided to not get too caught up on whether there are "supertaskers" or not...either way, it's very unlikely that any given individual falls into this category, even though most of us might be inclined to believe we do.


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needles62
I cannot see the blog posting. Do you have to upgrade to be able to see it?

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Josh Nankivel Engineering Project Manager| Apple Sioux Falls, Sd, United States
@needles62, it's a YouTube video....do you have flash or scripting disabled in your browser?


Here's a direct link, see if it works for you:


YouTube Video: Project Supertaskers


-Josh

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Shim Marom Project Manager Melbourne, Australia
Hi Josh, the bit.ly links seem to have lapsed. Can you provide the permanent links to the study and the TIME article?

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Josh Nankivel Engineering Project Manager| Apple Sioux Falls, Sd, United States
Thanks Shim. I just learned something new! bit.ly links are case sensitive!!!


uggh


Here are the full links without using the bit.ly service:




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Shim Marom Project Manager Melbourne, Australia
Thanks mate.

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Alaa Hussein Program Manager| MEMECS Baghdad, Iraq
Thanks for sharing

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