This, that and the other

A friend was giving me a lift to dancing.

yap

She's extremely intelligent and I really like her

yap yappity

particularly her ability

yap yap yap

to entertain us both

yappity yap

all the way there

"yappity yappity yap yap yappity ooh, what's this" she says confused at a road junction we've done dozens of times before...

Which we agreed proved that, despite the myth, women cannot multitask.

What they do do though, in computing terms, is Rapid Context Switching which just looks like multitasking *

It's true, human beings really can only pay attention to one thing at a time no matter what the gender.

Men, on the other hand, can sometimes get so highly focused that only the Non Maskable Interrupts of beer, nooky or telly can distract them.

Well, that's not strictly true. Men think about sex every 6 seconds yes (heh, real men can do it quicker!) so that, plus what ever else they're doing at the time... now that's real multitasking!


* for extra flame-bait we could conjecture how well you can do anything if you're that easily interrupted... :-)