Studies show that cold rooms reduce women's cognitive skills and productivity
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The 'optimum temperature' of the room in which you study or work varies depending on the person, and sometimes the battle breaks out when the room is 'too cold' or 'too hot.' Isn't this kind of room temperature related not only to people's comfort but also to cognitive ability and productivity? In the experiment, it was found that the temperature at which performance is maximized differs between men and women.
Battle for the thermostat: Gender and the effect of temperature on cognitive performance
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0216362
Cold Offices Could Actually Be Harming Women's Cognitive Performance, Study Suggests
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-ideal-workplace-temperature-for-men-could-lessen-productivity-for-women
Tom Y. Chang of the Marshall School of Management and Agne Kajackaite of the Berlin Social Sciences Center conducted an experiment on 543 university students to find out 'what is the difference in sweet spots between men and women at room temperature?' . The subject students performed logical tasks, mathematical tasks, and language puzzles in a room set at 16 to 32 degrees.
As a result, it was firstly shown that the score of the logical task was generally not susceptible to temperature change. On the other hand, women's performance was better in warm rooms for mathematical tasks and language puzzles. The effect of temperature is particularly large when women solve mathematical problems, and a woman's score has improved by 2% by just one degree of room temperature increase.
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In the experiment, women's cognitive performance rose in the form of 'more answers'. From here, researchers conclude that 'the rise in women's performance is partly caused by the increase in labor.'
On the other hand, in the case of men, it has been shown that the higher the temperature, the lower the performance, and the researchers say that 'the higher the temperature, the less the visible labor'.
In addition, it has been said that in some experiments conducted in warm rooms, 'performance improvement for women' was significantly greater than 'performance reduction for men.' From this, it can be said that 'women are more sensitive to room temperature than boys,' but there is an option to raise the room temperature a bit, considering 'maximizing overall performance.'
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However, such experiments are limited in past research and their results vary, and further research, including large-scale surveys, is needed to improve data accuracy. 'Our research has shown that the room temperature is related not only to' comfort 'but also to' cognitive ability and productivity, 'so it is possible that the stakes for the battle over the room temperature could potentially be I said, 'the researchers say.
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