Peopleware lists an interesting experiment on that

Post #166,717 by ben_tilly 7/29/04 10:10:46 PM Reply	Peopleware lists an interesting experiment on that The took a group of students, and asked which ones liked working to music versus didn't. They then subdivided each into two groups, one of whom had to do a programming exercise in a room with music playing, and once of whom worked in a silent room. They found no statistically significant difference between the performance of people depending on presence of preference for music. BUT there was a trick! The problem involved a series of complex manipulations that simplified down to "give me back what I started with". All of the people who noticed that were in the quiet room. The preliminary conclusion is that music doesn't harm productivity, but does hinder creativity. Cheers, Ben To deny the indirect purchaser, who in this case is the ultimate purchaser, the right to seek relief from unlawful conduct, would essentially remove the word consumer from the Consumer Protection Act - [link\|http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=1246&Page=1&pagePos=20\|Nebraska Supreme Court]
Post #166,720 by deSitter 7/29/04 10:16:58 PM Reply	Re: Peopleware lists an interesting experiment on that Plato considered music as almost evil, that it would inflame the passions and cloud the mind: [link\|http://www.tesc.edu/~rprice/platomus.htm\|http://www.tesc.edu/~rprice/platomus.htm] -drl
Post #166,729 by tuberculosis 7/30/04 12:22:05 AM Reply	I buy that If I'm coding something and I know where I'm going - putting on a really grooving playlist will result in me banging the thing out in record time. But I can't create like that - I often need to get out of the usual environment and sit with pad of paper and pencil to work things out. Don't need a computer when doing deep conceptualization. Actually, taking a shower or hitting the hot tub often helps here. That was lovely cheese. --Wallace, The Wrong Trousers
Post #166,730 by deSitter 7/30/04 12:26:48 AM Reply	night I can't do physics during the day. Don't know why. I tend not to care about ambience, as long as I'm comfortable. -drl
Post #166,736 by FuManChu 7/30/04 1:11:55 AM Reply	That's what's missing from my office--a hot tub! "Despite the seemingly endless necessity for doing so, it's actually not possible to reverse-engineer intended invariants from staring at thousands of lines of code (not in C, and not in Python code either)." Tim Peters on python-dev
Post #166,770 by tuberculosis 7/30/04 12:03:13 PM Reply	My last SF job was next to health club And HR negotiated cheap memberships for employees - and since I was living on a boat at the time I joined largely to have another shower I could use. But I also found the steam room useful for having a think. That was lovely cheese. --Wallace, The Wrong Trousers

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