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This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Taliatta.

A few years ago, scientists determined that our thermostats are sexist, namely that office

climates had been optimized for a hypothetical room full of 40-year-old 150-pound men, using

standards developed more than 50 years ago. And that ends up leaving a lot of women in the cold.

It's called the Battle of the Thermostat, right?

Tom Chang, a behavioral economist at the USC Marshall School of Business.

He says it goes beyond comfort for women.

It seems that it's not just a matter of comfort,

but it also affects their productivity.

Chang and his colleague tested that link between temperature and performance by

quizzing 543 German students on basic addition skills and word scrambles in rooms that

varied from 60 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit. And if you went from, let's say, the low 60s to the mid-70s,

you saw an increase in female performance of almost 15%, 15%, 15%, not 50,

which I found remarkably large. It was much larger than I had expected.

The effects tapered off after the mid-70s, but men, on the other hand, had a small decrease in

performance, about 3% as temperatures rose to the mid-70s. The results are in the journal plus 1.

And there's a chance these findings might explain things like disparities and test scores on the SAT.

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