Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber?

Re:Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber? by quibono on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @06:06PM (#19863447)

If it's not CO2 the real cause might be even more interesting, if a real negative effect does exist (which it seems to do, given the recent studies). I find it interesting that 1) they disagree based on the tests/methodology used 2) no one seems to be acknowledging the military research from back then (which I have to say, I didn't know about myself).

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Re:Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber? by solveit on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @08:10PM (#19864182)

Re 2: Military research gets ignored all the time despite (because?) it often outpacing academia by decades. Not sure exactly why this happens, just wanted to note this phenomenon isn't specific to CO2 levels and cognition.

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Re:Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber? by ezoe on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @09:46PM (#19864642)

Maybe, Military has strong incentive to conclude that CO2 level not affecting the soldier's intellectual and physical activities so they don't need to spend extra cost for submarine to keep the CO2 level low.

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Re:Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber? by ekianjo on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @09:49PM (#19864667)

The Military has very little cost constraints. If they can show that CO2 impacts negatively the performance of troops they will get funding as needed. They are not run like corporations at all.

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Re:Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber? by banku_brougham on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @10:48PM (#19864941)

The 60s and 70s military may indeed have had.

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Re:Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber? by ekianjo on Thursday May 09, 2019 @07:13AM (#19867092)

You have seen the budget of the US military. You could hardly call that constrained.

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Re:Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber? by prepend on Thursday May 09, 2019 @07:25AM (#19867164)

I think the military has a strong incentive to not have submarine crews with impaired intellectual and physical activities so they can perform as designed.

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Re:Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber? by eveningcoffee on Thursday May 09, 2019 @08:25AM (#19867596)

If they had then why perform the study? They clearly wanted to optimize this cost.

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Re:Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber? by ahakki on Thursday May 09, 2019 @10:58AM (#19868865)

If the study had shown impairment of cognitive functions during normal U-boat operations, maybe they would’ve upgraded the ships with extra scrubbers.

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Re:Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber? by TrustAndSafety on Thursday May 09, 2019 @01:15PM (#19870127)

because they clearly wanted to optimize the performance of the crews.

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