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Investor’s Business Daily - People who routinely consumed multiple media such as Internet, TV, and cell phones are the worst at multitasking, a study by Stanford Univ. found. The researchers tested memory and the ability to switch tasks in both high multitaskers and low multitaskers. Low multitaskers are better at the exercise, while high multitaskers are lousy at everything that’s necessary for effective multitasking. Not only did the high multitaskers do worse from the beginning, they got worse at it as time went on, the study suggested.

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