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Poll: Do you ever watch TV while you work? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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Enrico Zoffoli 
Italy
Local time: 20:56
Member (2013)
German to Italian
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I never watch TV - let alone when I work.
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Julian Holmes
Japan
Local time: 03:56
Member (2011)
Japanese to English
And risk typing something deliciously unsubtle out of South Park into a printer installation manual! 
Voted "No, never"
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Anne Carnot
France
Local time: 20:56
Member (2009)
English to French
my desk is in our living-room, so I sometimes work with Wii noises in the background when my kids play wit it (but we're "old fashioned" - to quote my eldest son - so they are only allowed to play once or twice a week, so it's not too much trouble ... I also asked a few times for them to play without any sound... a real bliss!!)
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I might watch a little TV during my coffee breaks but never, never while working! I need my concentration to be fully on...
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| Multitasking in humans? A bad idea | May 8, 2013 |
Multitasking in humans has been described by neuroscience as a bad and stupid, if not impossible, thing to practice .
If you watch TV while you work, you do both things badly!
[Edited at 2013-05-08 08:56 GMT]
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Jean NICOLET
France
Local time: 20:56
English to French
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Missing option: "No, I don't have TV, and I don't plan to!"
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| I beg to differ | May 8, 2013 |
Alexander Kupriyanchuk wrote: Multitasking in humans has been described by neuroscience as a bad and stupid, if not impossible, thing to practice . If you watch TV while you work, you do both things badly! [Edited at 2013-05-08 08:56 GMT]
We women multitask all the time: doing the washing up while talking on the phone, while keeping an eye on the kids, while listening out for the doorbell!!!!
Although I agree: TV and translation don't mix!
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inkweaver
Germany
Local time: 20:56
French to German
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I hardly ever watch TV anyway. I don't listen to music either, because I can't concentrate properly since I tend to listen to the lyrics even if they happen to be in a language that I don't understand. And even purely instrumental music makes my mind wander...
And I fully agree with Alexander: Multitasking is not a good idea because you end up doing two (or more) things badly. (I am a woman, BTW...)
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DianeGM
Local time: 21:56
Member (2006)
Dutch to English
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I rarely ever watch TV anyway, and I would never do so while working.
Surprisingly there is a % yes vote (?) - can we hear from some of those?
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Andrea Munhoz
Brazil
Local time: 15:56
Portuguese to English
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Enrico Zoffoli wrote:
I never watch TV - let alone when I work.
Same here.
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Tim Drayton
Cyprus
Local time: 21:56
Turkish to English
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I need peace and quiet to produce quality results. Even a dog barking or roadworks going on outside negatively impact on my work. I would certainly not listen to music or watch television while working.
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I have to work and my babies are watching TV, but usually I don't work if they are at home.
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| Classical music only - nothing else allowed | May 8, 2013 |
I don't own a TV, and would *never* watch TV while working - I find the thought preposterous.
I only ever have classical (instrumental) music on while I work and at low volume - no lyrics, only music and I listen to the same composers (Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Brahms and Hadyn) when I work, so that listening to them automatically puts me into work-mode. Anything other than that and I get really stressed out and quality suffers.
Audrey Pate wrote:
We women multitask all the time: doing the washing up while talking on the phone, while keeping an eye on the kids, while listening out for the doorbell!!!!
I'm a woman and I don't believe in the myth of multitasking - I do one thing at a time or nothing at all. If you try to do many things at once, all of them will suffer from the lack of attention. I think it is a case of "speak for yourself" on this point
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| No, not really | May 8, 2013 |
but sometimes I have instrumental music in the background, notably classical..
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