New Study for Judging Human Ability to Improve Multi-Tasking Skills

lets say we get 500 people as our study group. We'll split them into 5 groups. The study will be carried out over a 3 month period.

Group 1:Is given an audio recording on a topic (a podcast for example). They are also given reading material on the same topic.

Group 2:Is given the same material, but the reading material is on a different topic than the audio.

Group 3:Is given the audio material and a copy of Tetris.

Group 4:Is given music and reading material.

Group 5:Is given nothing.

Group 5 is given a test. They have a 5 minute recording on a topic as well as reading material on the same topic, but which contains different information. They have 5 minutes to listen to the recording while reading the information. After this time they are given a test which requires knowledge of both items.

These tests are stored away until the end of the study WITHOUT BEING SCORED (in order to maintain blindness on the part of the experimenters). The other groups spend 1 hour a day listening to their audio while reading the material they were given, or playing Tetris. After 3 months of doing this, they write the same test that group 5 wrote. The tests are scored and results compared.

The point of this study is to determine whether or not people are capable of learning to take in 2 streams of data.

"Why do you continue to
change the subject and break my concentration
As I dump the bottle out and count the Advil up again!"
-They Might Be Giants