XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android   
   From: patty1@wintertime.com   
      
   In article <091220151601366586%nospam@nospam.invalid>,   
   nospam   wrote:   
   >In article <56689357$0$92848$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, Patty Winter   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> None of the other examples you gave require anywhere near the level   
   >> of cognitive attention that a phone conversation does.   
   >   
   >nonsense.   
   >   
   >people can (and do) have cellphone conversations while seeing where   
   >they are going.   
      
   I didn't say anything about a cellphone user's eyes moving. I said   
   "cognitive attention." I.e., you have to think more to carry on a   
   conversation than to eat or change the radio station.   
      
      
   >> These days, fiddling with the radio doesn't require taking ones eyes   
   >> off the road.   
   >   
   >yes it does, unless you somehow magically know where the specific   
   >button you want to press happens to be, or the cd you want to insert   
   >happens to be.   
      
   I know exactly where the up/down volume and up/down channel buttons   
   are on my steering wheel; I don't have to look at them.   
      
      
   >> Neither does eating.   
   >   
   >you must be kidding.   
      
   No. Do you look at your food while you're eating it? I don't.   
      
      
   >> Putting on makeup is dumb because   
   >> it does require looking in the mirror.   
   >   
   >yet nobody makes a fuss about that. only cellphones.   
      
   I just made a fuss about it, and I'm hardly the first person to do so.   
      
      
   Patty   
      
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