Fox Boston reports that a study on how people perform while driving and talking on a hands-free cell phone found that most people did not drive beteer. However, the study found a very small percentage (2.5%) of people actually drive better when talking on a hands-free cell phone.
Results showed performance suffered while driving and talking on a hands-free cell phone.
This was not the case with the small number of participating supertaskers, who showed no impairment in any of the tests. In fact, researchers found these individuals’ performance was even better.
"There is clearly something special about the supertaskers," says Strayer. "Why can they do something that most of us cannot? Psychologists may need to rethink what they know about multitasking in light of this new evidence.”
The problem with this supertaskers discovery, if it is true, is that too many people are going to think that are supertaskers and convince themselves that they can do what the vast majority of people cannot do.
