On 8/16/2015 7:34 PM, trader_4 wrote:
On Sunday, August 16, 2015 at 7:10:02 PM UTC-4, Muggles wrote:


I highly doubt it's any more distracting than playing music might be.


I think you're lost in space again. Listening to music doesn't
require your concentration, you're paying attention to every word,
so you can understand what the person on the phone is saying.
It also doesn't require typing in numbers, looking up numbers
in directories, responding because it's suddenly ringing and it
may be your boss, texting, etc.


What about talking to passengers in a car? If listening to music isn't
considered to be a distraction, then talking to passengers wouldn't be
considered to be a distraction, either, correct? Or, some may say all
of those things are distractions, so then why would talking on a
cellphone be any more or less a distraction than the others things I listed?

My comment said, "I highly doubt it's any more distracting than playing
music might be."

Many people have adapted to multitasking. Driving in an act of
multitasking all by itself.

Any distraction is only significant if the one dealing with the
distraction is not adept at multitasking, or they've added some sort of
impairment to their ability to pay attention.

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Maggie