OT? Why mgoblog improves your productivity at work
True story.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/10/01/want-to-in…
Japanese researchers, however, have come up with a very offbeat approach: Showing workers lots of pictures of adorable, fuzzy, baby animals. A team of researchers at Hiroshima University recently conducted a study where they showed university students pictures of baby animals before completing various tasks. What they found, in research published today, was that those who saw the baby animal pictures did more productive work after seeing those photographs
So whenever Brian is posting pictures of cute little kittens, he has just helped boost our productivity. Thanks, Brian!
Now go forth and produce!
October 2nd, 2012 at 8:15 PM ^
kittens - NO
MUPPETS - YES
Go Blue!
October 3rd, 2012 at 1:26 AM ^
October 2nd, 2012 at 8:16 PM ^
The Japanese researchers are wrong.
October 2nd, 2012 at 9:18 PM ^
that is made even better if you imagine the poster's avatar as the one saying the phrase.
October 2nd, 2012 at 8:20 PM ^
I feel a soul-to-soul connection in the kitten's eyes.
October 2nd, 2012 at 8:20 PM ^
It doesn't at all."
October 2nd, 2012 at 8:29 PM ^
I had always read the blog since before the Horror, but never bothered to join the fun on the boards until this year. My work productivity is way way way down now. I'm buried in work to get caught up on and cant keep myself off the boards. As I type this I'm in grad school, on here instead of paying attention to the lecture. So yeah, this definitely kills my productivity.
October 2nd, 2012 at 8:35 PM ^
Baby animals are much better looking than baby humans. Baby humans are ugly.
October 2nd, 2012 at 9:14 PM ^
I know, right? Puppies are awesome as soon as you clean the goo off. Baby humans aren't cute for months or years. I have a 3 year old pug and a 2 year old human. I speak from experience.
October 2nd, 2012 at 8:35 PM ^
I'm not sure the kitten pictures make up for the hours where I'm not actually working.
But it is possible that the kitten pictures help my ability to post on MGoBlog.
October 2nd, 2012 at 8:40 PM ^
and since your ability to post on MGoBlog is clearly more important than work anyway, kittens are a net benefit to you in the end
Science, bitches.
October 2nd, 2012 at 8:38 PM ^
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October 2nd, 2012 at 10:20 PM ^
The kittens do make me feel hopeful that, in the end, I will be maximally productive. That being said, I often mind myself sharing the kitten photos with others, which makes it hard to actually get back to actual work, but does inspire me to post in kind on MGoBlog, so if the kittens were a measure of my MGoBlog productivity, there is definitely something to this.
October 2nd, 2012 at 9:03 PM ^
We all know when the japanese workers saw the kitten pictures they increased productivity because all they could thinking about was dinner time.
/s
October 2nd, 2012 at 9:06 PM ^
...equals what?!?!?!
October 2nd, 2012 at 10:20 PM ^
Profit
October 2nd, 2012 at 9:07 PM ^
if anyone is interested in that kind of research.
October 2nd, 2012 at 9:35 PM ^
Look at this guy; first a doctor, then a lawyer, and now an expert on doodling.
October 2nd, 2012 at 10:39 PM ^
My girlfriend refers to doodling as playing with my weiner. Not sure that's what you're referring to here, but no, it generally does not help. Unless you're concentrating on doodling.
October 2nd, 2012 at 9:11 PM ^
October 2nd, 2012 at 9:11 PM ^
This is exactly the kind of wacky research I would expect coming out of a university in Hiroshima.
October 2nd, 2012 at 9:15 PM ^
+1 for radioactivity jokes!
October 2nd, 2012 at 9:49 PM ^
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October 2nd, 2012 at 10:21 PM ^
Oh yeah, then why am I not studying for the physics exam I have in 2 days? Which reminds me....
October 2nd, 2012 at 10:34 PM ^
What kind of field do you have to be in to be able to call this research?
October 2nd, 2012 at 10:58 PM ^
Boating Education
October 2nd, 2012 at 10:38 PM ^
I can tell you that this one suffers from presupposition failure.