You have to cram for that test you have tomorrow, and you hear that universal ping. You got a text. Statistics show that answering texts while studying decreases your learning performance. Even if you think you can successfully multitask, this still affects you.
Basically, the experiment took 47 students at Columbia Falls High School, and for the first phase, it gave them passages to read. After reading, participants were asked to answer a few questions on what they read, with no distractions. In the second phase, the participants were asked to again, read passages and answer questions, but there was a catch. Programmers sent digital texts to the computer screens every 90 seconds. The results showed that only a few students did as well as the first phase. No one did better than in the first phase, and that’s what was important. They tested many people of all gender, race and age.
This study proves that cell phones and texting do distract us. To keep us from getting distracted, we should turn off our cell phones, or put your phone on airplane mode. This, in turn, will help us concentrate on what we are doing. Go and give it a try today!
Rohit M.
Basically, the experiment took 47 students at Columbia Falls High School, and for the first phase, it gave them passages to read. After reading, participants were asked to answer a few questions on what they read, with no distractions. In the second phase, the participants were asked to again, read passages and answer questions, but there was a catch. Programmers sent digital texts to the computer screens every 90 seconds. The results showed that only a few students did as well as the first phase. No one did better than in the first phase, and that’s what was important. They tested many people of all gender, race and age.
This study proves that cell phones and texting do distract us. To keep us from getting distracted, we should turn off our cell phones, or put your phone on airplane mode. This, in turn, will help us concentrate on what we are doing. Go and give it a try today!
Rohit M.