New blog out on all of those stories about women doing badly in cold offices - Cold Offices Don’t Kill Productivityhttps://link.medium.com/pidfdnFJ2W
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This was a fascinating one to write, because there were literally hundreds of stories out saying that women definitely did worse in cold offices based on SCIENCEpic.twitter.com/HC4YQC4fnp
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But, when you look at the study, it's a non-randomized trial conducted on paid participants who never gave informed consent (weirdly) that showed a positive result for 2 out of 3 tests taken
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I mean, these are the tables from the study on temperature, gender, and test scores Hard to say that there's a definitive connection herepic.twitter.com/5EKPpacxxc
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Even worse, the models didn't control for any confounders at all. Instead, they did a sensitivity analysis looking at the impact of inclusion on the model for a few confounders
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So what we've basically got in most of the headlines are the inconclusive results from an uncontrolled study in undergrad students in Germany Not exactly inspiring stuff, that
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P.S. - based on the research I read for this blog, it's not even certain that women dislike cold offices per se, it may be more to do with temperature variation than anything
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So women will be less comfortable in any environment that has a variance compared to 'neutral' - however that's defined, like outside temperature - than men
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It looks like the best temperature to pick, in practice, is the one that most women agree is perfect, because men don't care much regardless
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