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Prompt: Science Summary

A few researchers gave a report on their experiments trying to see if the statement “Women are better at multitasking then men” could have any truth behind it. The first experiment placed people in a situation where they had to carry out a few tasks, but they did not have to do it at the same time (BioMed). In the second experiment man and women were given three different tasks that they had to complete in eight seconds. A phone would ring in the middle of their tasks and if they chose to answer, they would be asked a common knowledge question (BioMed). Neither of the experiments showed any definite example of women being better at multitasking. Even so, women did seem to have a slightly easier time accomplishing the tasks. When looking into this it could be due to women having an equivalent amount of white matter and grey matter in both hemispheres(Wood, 62). Though as Gijsbert Stoet, the author of the paper stated, “"The lack of other empirical studies, though, should caution against drawing strong conclusions; instead, we hope that other researchers will aim to replicate and elaborate on our findings."(BioMed) There are a few of Barrett’s Laws that fit this. The two that correlate best is #10 “Lack of evidence does not mean it’s false” and #4 “Science runs on careful criticism.” More research should be done to further evaluate if women are truly better at multitasking than men. At the same time we need to make sure that we don’t just excuse it because of the lack of evidence. With more research the evidence needed my potentially be found.

References: Wood, Samuel E., Ellen R. Green. Wood, and Denise Roberts. Boyd. // Mastering the World of Psychology //. Third ed. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2007. Print.

BioMed Central Limited. "Can anyone really multitask?." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 24 October 2013. .

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