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. RT in pure trials: 511ms RT in mixed trials: 804ms Mixing cost: 293ms RT in task-repeat trials (in mixed blocks): 804ms RT in task-switching trials (in mixed blocks): 1026ms Task-switch cost: 222ms I think this is very easy to "train" and would expect to see significant improvements on the second and third attempt.
https://www.psytoolkit.org/experiment-library/experiment_mul... for the actual runnable experiment. Shared my results below (I'm pretty tired at the moment so don't feel my sharpest)— super curious what others got. I've been trying to eliminate multi-tasking as much as I can, but the nature of startups day-to-day and even what seems like a single/monotask when zoomed out now often involves context switching (For say,…
. RT in pure trials: 511ms RT in mixed trials: 804ms Mixing cost: 293ms RT in task-repeat trials (in mixed blocks): 804ms RT in task-switching trials (in mixed blocks): 1026ms Task-switch cost: 222ms I think this is very easy to "train" and would expect to see significant improvements on the second and third attempt.
The screen seems to be stuck at Wait a second... for me.
I noticed that my performance significantly dropped towards the end because my brain was just fried.
(Also, who else did the test while task-switching to HN while waiting for something to finish?)
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Fascinating that you're measuring milliseconds where I'm having context switches that cost me minutes to hours to days.
I don't think this game is all that representative of context-switching overhead, as my 4th attempt gives evidence that this improves quickly with practice: RT in pure trials: 422ms RT in mixed trials: 611ms Mixing cost: 189ms RT in task-repeat trials (in mixed blocks): 611ms RT in task-switching trials (in mixed blocks): 602ms Task-switch cost: -9ms The "mixed trials" are naturally slower because I'm having to recog…
What I'm curious about is whether we also get specifically good at say, task-switching between a code editor and say, Stack Overflow, over time