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Young girls are encouraged to do many things at once and be social and young boys are encouraged to focus on one thing at a time and be more introvert.
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Wait what? My experience tells me the exact opposite. I've never seen guys trained to be introverted.. as a matter of fact it's usually attributed as a "weaker" trait.
My personality predisposes me to being a multitasker, I think mostly due to my interest in computers. They've trained me since a YOUNG age that some things take longer than others and I can get more done if I ignore the slow tasks while I work on the fast tasks. Doctors these days decided to call this a disease, ADD.. but I think it's a beneficial trait, myself. Computers take the "dumb" approach themselves, accomplishing multitasking by taking, say, 10 tasks, and giving 1/10th of their time to each. That isn't especially effective, but I think a lot of people "multi-task" that way. Empirically I'd say that men are better at the "prioritizing" sort of multi-tasking, where the most important tasks float to the front. However, I doubt this would hold up under any well-controlled research.
I'm with the "in our evolutionary history, yes. now? no" crowd on this issue. I bet if you went to a drug-based pysciatrist Ustwo he'd diagnose you with ADD and prescribe Ritalin, simply becasue "multitasking" as you quickly becomes "ADD" if you don't like having the ability.