Heat waves are a big problem. We all know about deaths and brain damage from heat stroke, but even modest increases in temperature over what we expect leads to consistently worse decision-making.
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"Sales for scratch tickets, which require buyers to choose between many different options, fell by $594 with every 1° Fahrenheit increase in temperature. Sales for lotto tickets, which require fewer decisions on the part of the buyer, were not affected."
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Participants in warm (77°) rooms performed significantly worse than those in cool (67°) rooms, failing to identify 50% of the spelling and grammatical errors (those in cool rooms, on the hand, only missed a 25% of the mistakes). - fromhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/warm-weather-makes-it-hard-think-straight/ …
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When it was in the 90s this week, I was unable / unwilling to do simple math tasks like currency exchange rates. Moving was hard. Thinking strategically about how to solve the problem of how heat impacting my cognition was beyond me.
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It's evening, so it's cool enough that I can think. For now. The world is heating up, and it would not be surprising if even small increases in temperature had a hugely negative impact on our cognition over the course of a hot season.
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