Useful, but Dangerous Research

March 30th 2010 at 10:00am, By Dave Guerin

Two University of Utah psychologists have found that you can drive safely while talking on a cellphone – well, probably not you, but 1 person in 40 (2.5%). Those “super-taskers” are able to do two things at once without sacrificing the performance of either (full paper here). Maybe we could get psychologists to test us to get exemption from all sorts of laws…

 HT Chronicle of Higher Education

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