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Temperatures are set based on formulas that aimed to optimize employees' thermal comfort, a neutral condition of the body when it doesn't have to shiver to produce heat because it's too cold or sweat because it's too hot. It's based on four environmental factors: air temperature, radiant temperature, air velocity and humidity. And two personal factors: clothing and metabolic rate, the amount of energy required by the body to function.
The problem, according to a study in Nature Climate Change on Monday, is that metabolic rates can vary widely across humans based on a number of factors -- size, weight, age, fitness level and the type of work being done -- and today's standards are based on the assumption that every worker is, you guessed it, a man.
Or if you want to be really specific, a 40-year-old, 154-pound man.
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Kingma and van Marken Lictenbelt's work builds on research out of Japan which found that the neutral temperature for Japanese women was 77.36 degrees (Fahrenheit) while it was 71.78 for European and North American males.
5.58 degrees is a significant difference. Is it better for half the people in the office to be sweaty than half the people in the office to be chilly?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Wednesday August 05 2015, @02:16PM
Hey, that is quite an interesting angle.
In case you don't see any line of comments approaching what you've seen interesting, may I kindly ask you to "seed" a comment on that line? Specifically to that article, all my lone neuron managed to fire was: "How's this different from allowing the kid to use nail-polish on her/his prosthetic?" - really, I can be stupid sometimes (perhaps most of it?), any kick in the back would be appreciated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday August 05 2015, @02:34PM
OK, I will. I typically incorporate that into my quip after the quote, because articles that start out with low # of comments tend to become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
A handful of people have taken umbrage at my quips, but I can see that consistently when I don't quip conversation is not generated. Assuming more conversation is better, that is.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday August 05 2015, @02:37PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday August 05 2015, @05:52PM
Keep the quip.
(Score: 2) by fleg on Thursday August 06 2015, @04:43AM
+1 for quipping.
(Score: 2) by darnkitten on Thursday August 20 2015, @02:09AM
I thought the LEGO story was cool and pointed it out to several patrons, but never got a chance to comment--on busy days, I might get to read the headlines on the front page before my first interruption, and I don't like to comment after the first day, as no one will see it.
The only reason I'm able to comment now is that there is a public County meeting being held at my one-room library, and I need to be here when they leave so I can set up for opening tomorrow morning. If they weren't here I'd have been cataloging books, and would not have seen it 'til tomorrow.