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08 Mar 2012, 3:25 am

Sometimes the Number and Letter switched faster than I can read what they wanted, so I would guess. lol.

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Switching: 2833 milliseconds

Repeating: 3342 milliseconds

Additional time: -509 milliseconds

My focus test

100% for 2 distractions

92% for 6 distractions

A score of 1.67

The other test

took an average of 1072ms to identify a face's gender.

You took an average of 1315ms to identify the emotion on a face

You also took 250ms longer to respond when you had to switch from doing emotions to doing gender and vice versa.



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08 Mar 2012, 5:42 am

Why do they say that "high" multitaskers take longer than "low" multitaskers to switch tasks? I'm assuming that a high multitasker is somebody who is skilled at multitasking and so should be able to do it quickly. I'm sure one of the AQ test questions was "does it take you a long time to get back to what you were doing if you are interrupted?"



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08 Mar 2012, 7:51 am

I got a really high (bad) score, which isn't surprising, but I really didn't find THIS task all that difficult. I scored badly, because I just am slow to analyze conditions. But I didn't take an extreme amount of time for ME. What would have made this test TERRIBLE for me? If I had been FORCED to use the right/left arrows instead of getting to use my mouse (I have NVLD and great difficulty judging my right from my left) and/or had they SWITCHED the placement of the answers. "Odd/vowel" was ALWAYS on the left. "Even/consonant" was ALWAYS on the right. I am absolutely abysmal at tests where they mix up your selections, where the choices can move to different parts of the screen, or if they had made "odd" be paired with "consonant" sometimes.

Edit: I just did the test with the red/blue rectangles. That was an absolute breeze. I got 100% correct, and my performance was off the charts. I have high processing speed in general, especially with visual stimuli, so I am not at all surprised that I did very well on this task. As for SWITCHING tasks and MULTI-tasking, I do horribly on that. My performance on these two tests pretty much screams AS... It also says something about Aspies' neurological processing. We tend to score really low on the juggling tasks activity, worse than the "high multi-taskers." But we tend to score above and beyond the "low multi-taskers" on the distraction/rectangle task. So, the conclusions made from this study don't even apply to us as a group.


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08 Mar 2012, 9:18 am

ToughDiamond wrote:
Why do they say that "high" multitaskers take longer than "low" multitaskers to switch tasks? I'm assuming that a high multitasker is somebody who is skilled at multitasking and so should be able to do it quickly. I'm sure one of the AQ test questions was "does it take you a long time to get back to what you were doing if you are interrupted?"

High multitaskers in this test refers to people who frequently do many things at a time that is to say they "multitask". Which doesn't mean that they are good at some things, this study contends that high multitaskers are easily distractable and are bad at focusing and filtering information. That's why they take longer because they get distracted or don't have a good organizational memory.
High multitaskers may do many things but quality gets lost along the way.

This test doesn't explain anything about you, it just compares your results with those of their study.
OddDuckNash99 wrote:
We tend to score really low on the juggling tasks activity, worse than the "high multi-taskers." But we tend to score above and beyond the "low multi-taskers" on the distraction/rectangle task. So, the conclusions made from this study don't even apply to us as a group.

That's probably true. Causes for those kind of scores may be different.



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08 Mar 2012, 9:29 am

Mayel wrote:
ToughDiamond wrote:
Why do they say that "high" multitaskers take longer than "low" multitaskers to switch tasks? I'm assuming that a high multitasker is somebody who is skilled at multitasking and so should be able to do it quickly. I'm sure one of the AQ test questions was "does it take you a long time to get back to what you were doing if you are interrupted?"

High multitaskers in this test refers to people who frequently do many things at a time that is to say they "multitask". Which doesn't mean that they are good at some things, this study contends that high multitaskers are easily distractable and are bad at focusing and filtering information. That's why they take longer because they get distracted or don't have a good organizational memory.
High multitaskers may do many things but quality gets lost along the way.

Thanks. I'd have expected people who multi-task a lot to become better at it. I think it's one of those things where their way of thinking about it is so different to mine that I can't map it onto what I already know. Rigid thinking I guess. :(



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08 Mar 2012, 3:49 pm

I'm quite fast:

Response time in Gender block: 1345 (here I analyzed the word under the face, so it slowed me down a little)
Response time in Emotions block: 627 (here I stopped paying attention to the word under the face)

The telephone rang just before I finished my multitasking session, so my score could be affected:
Response time for Emotions just after switch: 972.545454545454
Response time for Emotions not after switch: 1146.81818181818
Response time for Gender just after switch: 1149
Response time for Gender not after switch: 939.846153846154

Overall
Cost of switching: 17
Impulsiveness score (based on questionnaire): 63

This test wasn't too hard for me, I needed only a small part of face to identify it (there were only two faces).



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03 Apr 2012, 7:47 pm

Switching - 2034 ms (hover over your bar for the exact number)
Repeating - 1331 ms
Additional time for switching - 703 ms

with the colored rectangles one I got 1.67 with 2 distracters and a perfect 2 with 6 distracters.

Faces test:
Response time in Emotions block - 549
Response time in Gender block - 597
Response time for Emotions just after switch 1082.84615384615
Response time for Emotions not after switch 1011.14285714286
Response time for Gender just after switch 1246.8
Response time for Gender not after switch 1092.2
Cost of switching 113
Impulsiveness score (based on questionnaire) 79

Oh, and the faces test page has some other cognitive tests too. Here are my results on one:

Forecasting - 605 (I'm in the top 20%, probably my experience with research stats gives me an advantage)