The heat is making us all stupid. Literally | via nolisoliph
by Jisung Park of University of California Los Angeles and Harvard University studied the standardized test scores of students in New York City from 1998 to 2011. The study found that the students taking an exam on a day where the temperature was 90 degrees Fahrenheit reduced the performance of the student by 14 percent versus on days that the temperature was 72 degrees Fahrenheit .
The study also found that when students take tests on hot days, students were 10.9 percent less likely to pass the classes they were taking, which meant that there was a 2.5 percent decrease in their likelihood of graduating on time. The reason our brains perform on less optimal levels when exposed to high temperatures has a lot to do with what our brains are made of. A
published in the Journal of Neural Engineering explores the link between neural activity and temperature changes.
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