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Hot weather slows down your thinking: a new MIT study (n=31,000) finds that for every 1.8F° increase in temperature above 62°F , people's performance on a popular brain-training math test dropped by 0.13%.


A new study reveals that rising temperatures can negatively affect your ability to perform mental tasks, such as solving math problems.

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