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Americans May Have An ED Problem
Category: Seeing Clearly Now
I was about to prepare a new post but forgot what the topic was going to be. I may be one of those with an ED problem - no, not the ED featured in the television ads. Easily Distracted is the ED of which I speak.
Test Puts Attention on the Easily Distracted
THURSDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) - Prospective employers may have a new tool to spot people who are too easily distracted while on the job.Nilli Lavie, a psychology professor at University College London in England says she's developed a method of measuring how easily a person's attention wanders. She says it could be used by employers when hiring workers and could prove especially useful for jobs - such as a bus driver or pilot - where distraction could lead to fatal errors. [I definitely would like advance warning of a pilot who is ED.]
Easily distracted people are more likely to be involved in accidents, noted Lavie.
The computer-based test designed by Lavie measures a person's accuracy and reaction times when exposed to distractions. It was tested on 61 people, and the findings were published in the Association for Psychological Science journal.
Not only did the study find that the test gauges how easily a person is distracted, it also found that all people - easily distracted or not - tend to be far less likely to be distracted when they're doing a difficult task. This is likely because people are so focused on completing a difficult assignment that they have no extra brain capacity for processing distracting information, Lavie said.
Could ED explain why George Bush has been elected twice.
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