i am doing a letter about sex and genre, i want to mention that there are studies or investigation that prove that women can get concentrated in more than one thing at the same time but i can't find it. someone can help me?.
Dear Isaac:
Recent research has questioned the popular stereotype that women perform better than men while multitasking.
You can find such studies by searching for a chain like "multitasking women men" in an institutional library journal database or in Google Scholar.
It would be a serious epistemological and methodological error to "mention that there are studies [...] that prove that women can get concentrated in more than one thing at the same time."
The best way to proceed, to avoid any possible bias in your study, would be to ask the question "Do women perform better than men while multitasking?" then gather all the relevant research. If you think women are better at multitasking, look for evidence to the contrary. If a researcher is willing to select the evidence that supports his or her favorite hypothesis, anything can be "proven," even bizarre ideas like alien abduction or the efectiveness of homeopathic remedies beyond what would be expected from the placebo effect.
In spite of what we read in the mainstream press, scientists don't "prove" anything. What they do is test falsifiable hypotheses by confronting them with the relevant evidence, trying to refute them. A falsifiable hypothesis that has not been falsified remains on the discussion table, as a possible "truth," but it will always be under suspicion and should be critically confronted with emerging evidence.
I hope you find these suggestions useful.
Best regards,
David
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