Need a Creative Boost? Find the Blue Room.(nytimes.com)
nytimes.com
Need a Creative Boost? Find the Blue Room.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/science/06color.html?hp
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The only sentence in the article* that quantifies the magnitude of a color dependent effect is:
And while red guests reported feeling hungry and thirsty, yellow guests ate twice as much.
This is a pattern in science journalism:
1) scientists show statistically significant effect (sometimes minuscule in magnitude)
2) science writers describe the sign of the result without magnitude, and get some 'experts' to pontificate
3) public worries/speculates/exclaims about some new factor to think about in daily life
Yadda yadda.
[edit: *only sentence I saw after skimming ]
And while red guests reported feeling hungry and thirsty, yellow guests ate twice as much.
This is a pattern in science journalism:
1) scientists show statistically significant effect (sometimes minuscule in magnitude)
2) science writers describe the sign of the result without magnitude, and get some 'experts' to pontificate
3) public worries/speculates/exclaims about some new factor to think about in daily life
Yadda yadda.
[edit: *only sentence I saw after skimming ]
It worked! I worried/speculated/exclaimed, "I guess thats why McDs is all reds and yellows."
I'm currently in a blue room, however I don't necessarily feel anymore creative than usual. I used to write in a red room and I notice no appreciable difference in attention span, creativity or anything. In fact my best concentration (how efficiently I completed a project) was best when I was actually in a yellow room.
I do use a program called darkroom for typing, it allows you to change background color and font color easily. I usually use the old school neon-green on black, however I think I might try the equally old white on blue before a white on red and see if there's actually an effect.
I do prefer the green on black. However, the white on blue feels quite comforting when I look at it and white on red gives me a strange tingling at my forehead, which kind of disconcerts me for staring into it for hours on end.
I do use a program called darkroom for typing, it allows you to change background color and font color easily. I usually use the old school neon-green on black, however I think I might try the equally old white on blue before a white on red and see if there's actually an effect.
I do prefer the green on black. However, the white on blue feels quite comforting when I look at it and white on red gives me a strange tingling at my forehead, which kind of disconcerts me for staring into it for hours on end.
Speaking of paint.
Yellow pigment is not the same as yellow light; nor is red pigment the same as red light; nor is blue pigment the same as blue light. :)
The light-oriented color names are fancier. (cyan, magenta, etc.)
Probably one of the most valuable things I learned as a physics student in high school!
Yellow pigment is not the same as yellow light; nor is red pigment the same as red light; nor is blue pigment the same as blue light. :)
The light-oriented color names are fancier. (cyan, magenta, etc.)
Probably one of the most valuable things I learned as a physics student in high school!
You've got the pigments and light wavelengths swapped.
(cyan, magenta, yellow, black) form a set of additive (pigment) colors.
(cyan, magenta, yellow, black) form a set of additive (pigment) colors.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1169144