Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber?
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Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber?
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#2I subjectively noticed that a "stale office building" environment prevents my thinking, while a breeze in the open air is more intellectually stimulating.
Attributed this to the richer environment of nature, but it turns out that there is scientific research that finds a correlation between cognitive ability and airflow: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036013231...
Short answer: yes.
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#3Funny. I feel weird for saying I can't be in our Quiet Rooms for long. They have no ventilation. They are tiny. I start to feel sick and exhausted if I am in there too long. Some people have groups of three meetings in there for hours! How do they not pass out?
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#4Please, not the open air movement again.
Edit: for the non-stewards of History that have no idea what I'm talking about: http://digg.com/video/what-was-the-open-air-movement-and-how...
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#5I own a CO2 monitor and it is shocking how high it can get in a house with two people just existing. 800 ppm or more. Outside air is 410.
In a car with air on recirculate, it was getting to >1220 ppm, a level that impairs decision making and lowers brain function. I try to drive with air on fresh from now on.
I don’t doubt the air in our conference room with 20 people gets super high in CO2 as the meeting goes on, and that would explain a lot of the horrible decisions and thought processes that happen in there. :) I’m going to bring my meter to the next meeting and see what it gets to. We are a group of scientists so it won’t be awkward or weird. If nothing else it will spark discussion and reflection on the decisions that are made there.
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#6I own a CO2 monitor and it is shocking how high it can get in a house with two people just existing. 800 ppm or more. Outside air is 410. In a car with air on recirculate, it was getting to >1220 ppm, a level that impairs decision making and lowers brain function. I try to drive with air on fresh from now on. I don’t doubt the air in our conference room with 20 people gets super high in CO2 as the meeting goes on, an…
Could you recommend a CO2 monitor? How did you decide to purchase the model that you own?
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#7What if all of humanity’s bad decisions are caused by this?
Imagine if we started holding board meetings, etc outdoors and we fixed all our problems. Maybe an idea for a book?
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#8Conferences which make you talk more and think less might make you dumber orders of magnitudes more than any air.
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#9I own a CO2 monitor and it is shocking how high it can get in a house with two people just existing. 800 ppm or more. Outside air is 410. In a car with air on recirculate, it was getting to >1220 ppm, a level that impairs decision making and lowers brain function. I try to drive with air on fresh from now on. I don’t doubt the air in our conference room with 20 people gets super high in CO2 as the meeting goes on, an…
Could you recommend a CO2 monitor? How did you decide to purchase the model that you own?
Awair Glow is a very user friendly/cheap one: https://getawair.com/pages/awair-glow
It has an app (and an API) and monitors CO2, humidity, temp, and VOCs. I like it a lot. For me, it mostly serves as a reminder to open the door for a few minutes before bed and let some fresh air in.
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#10I own a CO2 monitor and it is shocking how high it can get in a house with two people just existing. 800 ppm or more. Outside air is 410. In a car with air on recirculate, it was getting to >1220 ppm, a level that impairs decision making and lowers brain function. I try to drive with air on fresh from now on. I don’t doubt the air in our conference room with 20 people gets super high in CO2 as the meeting goes on, an…
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