HeatCognition: Heat and Cognition
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Effect of heat on cognitive ability

A data frame with 46 observations on the following 3 variables.

AC: Whether the student had air conditioning on in the room, No or Yes
MathZRT: Z-score of reaction time solving math problems
ColorsZRT: Z-score of reaction time solving STROOP color problems

Forty-six college students were asked to solve cognitive problems first thing in the morning during a heat wave in their Northeastern city. Twenty of the students had air-conditioning in their rooms and twenty-six did not. Z-scores of reaction times are given for math problems and for color dissonance problems.

Cedeo Laurent JG, Williams A, Oulhote Y, Zanobetti A, Allen JG, Spengler JD "Reduced cognitive function during a heat wave among residents of non-air-conditioned buildings: An observational study of young adults in the summer of 2016." PLoS Med 15(7): e1002605, July 10, 2018. https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002605. (Dataset is simplified from the repeated measures design used in the original study.)

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