Bradley

Proposition: women are better at multitasking than men.

Firstly, I smell a rat because this proposition has usually been proposed to me by women as a point of superiority.

Secondly, the examples given have smacked of cherry picking the data to provide non-statistical evidence for the proposition.

Thirdly, there are conscious tasks and subconscious tasks and most of us can simultaneously handle one of the former and a number of the latter.

Fourthly, the ability to do so probably depends on training and not gender. Although maybe one of the sexes may be encouraged to train more than the other?

Finally, the best multitasker I have ever known was a male flat mate who could, with wonderful ease, simultaneously read, watch TV, listen to music, eat, think about his PhD thesis, hold down two conversations and scratch various parts of his anatomy.