The Impact of Indoor Climate on Human Cognition: Evidence from Chess Tournaments
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- Apr 29, 2019
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This paper studies the impact of environmental quality on the performance of individuals undertaking cognitively demanding tasks under time pressure. We link measures of indoor air...
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Chess players make more mistakes on polluted days: "We find that an increase of 10 µg/m³ raises the probability of making an error by 1.5 percentage points, and increases the magnitude of the errors by 9.4%. The impact of pollution is exacerbated by time pressure. When players approach the time control of games, an increase of 10 µg/m³, corresponding to about one standard deviation, increases the probability of making a meaningful error by 3.2 percentage points, and errors being 17.3% larger." – Künn et al 2019.