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‘Battle of the Thermostat’ (experiment (The researchers asked more than…
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experiment
The researchers asked more than 500 college students to take tests for an hour in rooms with temperatures between 61 and 90 degrees Fahrenheit (so 16°C to 32°C). The students performed as many simple math problems as possible, and rearranged a set of letters into as many words as they could, within a time limit. They also were asked to solve a series of tricky logic problems.
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For each increase of 1.8 degrees, women’s math scores rose by around 2 percent. That difference might sound small, but it added up.
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Critique
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We are in our workplaces or classrooms for longer periods than that, and the outcomes might be different over the course of a full day, a question for future studies to address
It was high concentration, at work we are not always so productive
"On a good day, you will try more. On a bad day, you will try less."