Women find the tempeture "chilly"
women have slower metabolic rates
Temperature for the confort of men
35% lower than women needs
Temperatures test
Colder
Men scored higher on verbal and math tests
Warmer
women’s scores rose significantly
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.
when the researchers split the group's data between male and female subjects
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.
Below 70° 9 correct tasks on all
Above 80° 11 correct tasks on all
Finaly at max temperature female performance increased by 27 percent
Is there an ideal temperature ?
Critique
The experiment was only during an hour
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."