article_snippet: Teens are busy, I guess,' lead author David Hurwitz of Oregon State University told NPR.
article_snippet: Dr Hurwitz took teenagers into a classroom to demonstrate that completing simple tasks like writing on a chalkboard were much harder when attention was being pulled away by telephone conversations or other distractions.
article_snippet: The scientist said that after the class, 'students were slightly better at recognizing the risks of multitasking behind the wheel,' to Yahoo News.