Comments on: For a Creativity Boost, Go Hang Out in a Blue Room http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/06/for-a-creativity-boost-go-hang-out-in-a-blue-room/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day's most compelling topics. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Heather todd http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/06/for-a-creativity-boost-go-hang-out-in-a-blue-room/comment-page-1/#comment-970546 Heather todd Sun, 29 May 2011 11:02:07 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/06/for-a-creativity-boost-go-hang-out-in-a-blue-room/#comment-970546 Awesome post,Thanks Awesome post,Thanks

]]> By: Eliza Strickland http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/06/for-a-creativity-boost-go-hang-out-in-a-blue-room/comment-page-1/#comment-18196 Eliza Strickland Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:39:58 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/06/for-a-creativity-boost-go-hang-out-in-a-blue-room/#comment-18196 @ Mister Jim: The researchers conducted tests with more than 600 people overall. In most of the individual tests, each group was comprised of 40 to 60 people. @ Mister Jim: The researchers conducted tests with more than 600 people overall. In most of the individual tests, each group was comprised of 40 to 60 people.

]]> By: wordelangelo http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/06/for-a-creativity-boost-go-hang-out-in-a-blue-room/comment-page-1/#comment-18160 wordelangelo Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:35:38 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/06/for-a-creativity-boost-go-hang-out-in-a-blue-room/#comment-18160 Well, I live in a creative world. Instead of painting a room blue and another red, I might get me some truly blue and red-tinted eyeglasses and study the effects of wearing them. Well, I live in a creative world. Instead of painting a room blue and another red, I might get me some truly blue and red-tinted eyeglasses and study the effects of wearing them.

]]> By: Mister Jim http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/06/for-a-creativity-boost-go-hang-out-in-a-blue-room/comment-page-1/#comment-18138 Mister Jim Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:49:17 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/06/for-a-creativity-boost-go-hang-out-in-a-blue-room/#comment-18138 This article is worthless. Why? For all we know the study has no "statistical Power." In other words, there was a difference between groups, but the groups might only comprise 10 people each. Such studies are exploratory or pilot but always distrust any study that does not say X number of subjects in each group. Don't people learn this in school any more? Maybe it makes no difference anyway because if they hear it on TV or Oprah cites it, well then, it must be so! Ask yourself how many of the studies you've heard in the past twenty years on TV have held up (been replicated) over time so that they are now accepted knowledge by experts in the fields? ....Few. Always ask "How many subjects were in each group?" This article is worthless. Why? For all we know the study has no “statistical Power.” In other words, there was a difference between groups, but the groups might only comprise 10 people each. Such studies are exploratory or pilot but always distrust any study that does not say X number of subjects in each group. Don’t people learn this in school any more? Maybe it makes no difference anyway because if they hear it on TV or Oprah cites it, well then, it must be so!

Ask yourself how many of the studies you’ve heard in the past twenty years on TV have held up (been replicated) over time so that they are now accepted knowledge by experts in the fields? ….Few. Always ask “How many subjects were in each group?”

]]> By: Damian http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/06/for-a-creativity-boost-go-hang-out-in-a-blue-room/comment-page-1/#comment-18103 Damian Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:44:25 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/06/for-a-creativity-boost-go-hang-out-in-a-blue-room/#comment-18103 Did they check what effect gray cubicle walls had on performance? Surely that's the biggest boost; hundreds of thousands of corporate managers can't be wrong. Did they check what effect gray cubicle walls had on performance? Surely that’s the biggest boost; hundreds of thousands of corporate managers can’t be wrong.

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