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Ceiling Height May Affect Problem-Solving Skills
An anonymous reader writes to mention that a recent University of Minnesota study suggests that ceiling height may affect problem-solving skills. "'When people are in a room with a high ceiling, they activate the idea of freedom. In a low-ceilinged room, they activate more constrained, confined concepts.' Either can be good. The concept of freedom promotes information processing that encourages greater variation in the kinds of thoughts one has, said Meyers-Levy, professor of marketing at the University of Minnesota. The concept of confinement promotes more detail-oriented processing."
Obviously, they're doing it wrong.
CS majors know the time/space tradeoff, but they never get taught the 3rd, crucial, tradeoff of the set: comprehension!
It may affects grammar skills too.
I blame the extra-short ceiling on my floor for less-than-perfect grades freshman year!
I can buy the idea that the ceiling tends to stifle my creativity, but I think the chain attaching me to my desk and the guy who comes around every 15 minutes with the whip probably don't help either. And if all that weren't bad enough, they haven't changed the variety of snacks in the snack machine in like 3 years. There has to be something in the Geneva Conventions about that.
I think you made a mistake in the title.
From the title "Ceiling Height May Affects Problem-Solving Skills"
Should be "Ceiling Height May Affects Grammar Skills"
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Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
I'm from poor home and I am very creative and original, you insensitive clod!
Umm, we just read a report that ceiling height affects detail-oriented thinking. Mmmkay? So, I'm gonna have to ask you to mount this sheet of plywood across the top of your cubicle. If you could just take care of that, that'd be really great.
But the ceiling is closing in on me!!!
Well, back to rejecting software patent applications.
"No matter where you go, there you are." -- Buckaroo Banzai
...if they move my desk again I'm going to burn the building down.
Keeping in mind that there is a difference between restrictive thinking and the ability to think in the first place.
Perhaps one could say that her self discretion has been less restrictive from such an environment.
but it seems that everywhere, the ceiling makes you.
If my grammar and spelling are off, I am [distracted/tired/careless] (take your pick)
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...kind of. :)
I went to a school that was built in the early 1800s and had some really high ceilings on the top floor... about 15 feet high. The doors were made of massive wood and 8 feet high. This prompted some creativity in the students and there was a teacher that was usually a bit late so they unhinged the inwards opening door, put it back so that it was just held by the handle lock. Teacher enters and door falls down with a really really major bang as it went down. Teaching staff was not amused by students apparent creativty.
"When people are in a room with a high ceiling, they activate the idea of freedom."
"Wonder Twin powers activate!"
"Shape of an idea of freedom!"
"Form of an ice-- wait, what? Can Gleek carry that in a bucket?"
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be careful not to have too high ceilings, as you might be thinking out-of-the box and returning back might be a problem (or tiresome?)
Makes me wish I was a woman and could work under that limitless glass ceiling they're always talking about!
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
On the other hand, didn't Newton say something around the lines of "If I have been able to see further, it is because I have been surrounded by midgets"?
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Ahh, yes. In fact, in large doses, approx. 400 micrograms and higher, you may find yourself solving many problems. Not the least of which would be "How the hell do I get out of this chair?"
How about when I run into a doorjamb? How does that affect my ideas?
Depending on how fast you are running, your entire idea might stay in the room you just left. Wait, my bad, that would be your head. Eh, same difference.
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He's saying that it may be the problem-solving skills that are making the ceiling higher.
Probably.
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I'd avise you to sue your company, evidently they're jamming your ideas. They'll probably try to accomodate you and send you to the street, where you'll have an infinite roof and therefore infinitely broad ideas.
In regards with the doorways, if you ever need to work in details, my recommendation is that you try to work under your desk. I've found that does wonders for your work. If you manage to find a tea table or some other short table consider yourself in heaven. The only limit here is the size of your head. I've heard of some indians that found a way to make your head smaller therefore making your detailed work even better.