Weatherman2020
Diamond Member
Just in time for the election ‘science’ gives us a ‘study’ that says climate change is behind the reduction of the “speech complexity and productivity of politicians”.
Yep.
I don’t know about you, but I’m voting for Joe now, this is serious and Joe is the only one who can save us.
PURE SCIENCE. Don’t be a science denier and bring up the fact they never factor in age in their ‘scientific study’. Nor the fact that 99% of politicians hang out inside A/C buildings.
Climate change carries important effects on human wellbeing and performance, and increasingly research is documenting the negative impacts of out-of-comfort temperatures on workplace performance. In this study, we investigate the plausibly causal effect of extreme temperatures, i.e., out-of-comfort, on language complexity among politicians, leveraging a fixed effects strategy. We analyze language complexity in over seven million parliamentary speeches across eight countries, connecting them with precise daily meteorological information. We find hot days reduce politicians’ language complexity, but not cold days. Focusing on one country, we explore marginal effects by age and gender, suggesting high temperatures significantly impact older politicians at lower thresholds. The findings propose that political rhetoric is not only driven by political circumstances and strategic concerns but also by physiological responses to external environmental factors. Overall, the study holds important implications on how climate change could affect human cognitive performance and the quality of political discourse.
Yep.
I don’t know about you, but I’m voting for Joe now, this is serious and Joe is the only one who can save us.
PURE SCIENCE. Don’t be a science denier and bring up the fact they never factor in age in their ‘scientific study’. Nor the fact that 99% of politicians hang out inside A/C buildings.
Climate change carries important effects on human wellbeing and performance, and increasingly research is documenting the negative impacts of out-of-comfort temperatures on workplace performance. In this study, we investigate the plausibly causal effect of extreme temperatures, i.e., out-of-comfort, on language complexity among politicians, leveraging a fixed effects strategy. We analyze language complexity in over seven million parliamentary speeches across eight countries, connecting them with precise daily meteorological information. We find hot days reduce politicians’ language complexity, but not cold days. Focusing on one country, we explore marginal effects by age and gender, suggesting high temperatures significantly impact older politicians at lower thresholds. The findings propose that political rhetoric is not only driven by political circumstances and strategic concerns but also by physiological responses to external environmental factors. Overall, the study holds important implications on how climate change could affect human cognitive performance and the quality of political discourse.
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