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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People lived without air conditioning for thousands of years. Your snowflake will survive.[/quote]

Studies done *on college students* show that sleeping in temperatures that are too warm cause lower math scores on tests. Authors compared math scores from students in dorms with A/C and dorms without.

So this is academically important. A/C is not a frivolous demand these days.

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I'm so curious about this.  Can you cite the study?

Some questions I would have:
1. Who funded the study?
2. Was it peer-reviewed?
3. Did it control for other variables?
4.  What was the magnitude of impact on test scores?
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DP: I found the study: https://content.tcmediasaffaires.com/LAF/lacom/summer2016.pdf[/quote]

OK, I read the first paragraph and am already laughing:

We followed [b]44[/b] students (mean age = 20.2 years; SD = 1.8 years) from a university in the Greater Boston area, Massachusetts in the United States living in AC (n = 24) and non-AC (n = 20) buildings before, during, and after a HW. Two cognition tests were [b]self-administered[/b] daily for a period of [b]12 [/b]days (July 9–July 20, 2016), the Stroop color-word test (STROOP) to assess selective attention/processing speed and a 2-digit, visual addition/subtraction test (ADD) to evaluate cognitive speed and working memory. The effect of the HW on cognitive function was evaluated using difference-in-differences (DiD) modelling.

Sample of 44 who tested themselves for 12 days.

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Oy (this made me LOL)[/quote]

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