Did a quick search for slashdot / habitual / multitasking and didn't see this, apologize if it was posted somewhere.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08...rs-Do-It-Badly

I am a habitual dual-boxer, and for the most part bad at it, bad at WoW anyways. Abysmal at pvp, void zones, fire, and if I play with default health bars on my priest she sometimes dies because her health bar is a different size and causes me to phase out my own bar. I'm bad at multi-tasking most RL things in general. So when my friend sent me this link, I basically replied "DURRRR, that's what I've been saying all along!"

But, the title is quite misleading. The study doesn't seem to test multitasking; it tests multi-taskers doing what essentially are single tasks, and failing at it, in attempt to study what makes multi-taskers able to multi-task. I can totally imagine why multitaskers didn't do well at the three tests. Boredom, distraction, what-if-they're-actually-gonna-ask-about-the-other-squares-and-I-really-do-need-to-know-about-those-too. I feel that part of why I multitask is simply I just like extra stimulus and options. I don't care that I'm bad at it, I just like having the extra options/challenge/whatever. Or maybe I need to lower or raise my ADD medication! Could be one way or the other. Maybe two-boxing is my version of embracing my inability to focus on single tasks.

Yet, I can do things I wouldn't be able to do single boxing, and enjoy it immensely. Well maybe I could do it anyways with my godly prot paladin, but would just take longer. Actually that happens all the time when I mess up; the priest dies, and the paladin just keeps trucking. My priest's resurrections stats are hilarious. Resed by priests, druids, shaman: like 20 each; resed by paladins: 90. Also my falling, drowning, and fatigue deaths are numerous. How many times have YOU had to spirit rez in the Barrens?

Anyways, thought was interesting, and thought of you all.