Flutterby™! : Multitaskers suck at multitasking

Stanford study says that multi-taskers suck at multi-tasking. BBC article on the study:

"The shocking discovery of this research is that [high multitaskers] are lousy at everything that's necessary for multitasking," Professor Nass said.

"The irony here is that when you ask the low multitaskers, they all think they're much worse at multitasking and the high multitaskers think they're gifted at it."

Via /. which mentions the "Dunning-Kruger effect", where incompetent people tend to overrate their skills, and competent people tend to underrate them.

(And combine that with the fact that we trust confident people more, and... oh boy...)