OT? Why mgoblog improves your productivity at work

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OT? Why mgoblog improves your productivity at work

True story.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/10/01/want-to-inc...

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!

 

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October 2nd, 2012 at 8:15 PM | ummmm ... not quite (Score:-1 Offtopic)
October 3rd, 2012 at 1:26 AM | kate upton - nope (Score:1)
IndyVictor
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but its still liable to produce things

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October 2nd, 2012 at 8:16 PM | The Japanese researchers are (Score:3 Normal)
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The Japanese researchers are wrong.

October 2nd, 2012 at 9:18 PM | This is one of those great responses (Score:4 Normal)
bluewave720
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that is made even better if you imagine the poster's avatar as the one saying the phrase.

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October 2nd, 2012 at 8:20 PM | I feel a soul-to-soul (Score:2 Normal)
BlueDragon
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I feel a soul-to-soul connection in the kitten's eyes.

Abort, Retry, Fail?

October 2nd, 2012 at 8:20 PM | My first thought was "It doesn't (Score:4 Normal)
bluetell
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It doesn't at all."

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October 2nd, 2012 at 8:29 PM | Mine is way down (Score:1 Normal)
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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.

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October 2nd, 2012 at 8:35 PM | Baby animals are much better (Score:5 Normal)
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Baby animals are much better looking than baby humans.  Baby humans are ugly.

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October 2nd, 2012 at 9:14 PM | I know, right? Puppies are (Score:5 Normal)
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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 (Score:3 Normal)
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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 | Let's take this to its logical conclusion (Score:2)
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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.

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October 2nd, 2012 at 8:38 PM | What about Lloyd Brady (Score:3 Normal)
orobs
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What about Lloyd Brady photoshop threads?

October 2nd, 2012 at 8:42 PM | The difference is the (Score:5 Normal)
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The difference is the Japanese workers weren't allowed to return to the kittens every ten minutes to see if they were doing something different since the last 15 times.

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October 2nd, 2012 at 10:20 PM | Aiding Productivity (Score:1 Overrated)
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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. 

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October 2nd, 2012 at 9:03 PM | We all (Score:0 Normal)
October 2nd, 2012 at 9:04 PM | Blog + Cute Baby Animals + Productivity (Score:3 Normal)
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October 2nd, 2012 at 9:06 PM | ...equals what?!?!?! (Score:5 Normal)
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...equals what?!?!?!

October 2nd, 2012 at 10:20 PM | Equals (Score:3 Normal)
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Profit

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October 2nd, 2012 at 9:07 PM | Actually, doodling helps your concentration, (Score:0 Overrated)
October 2nd, 2012 at 9:35 PM | Look at this guy; first a (Score:5 Normal)
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Look at this guy; first a doctor, then a lawyer, and now an expert on doodling.

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October 3rd, 2012 at 1:10 AM | Still bitter? (Score:-1 Flamebait)
October 2nd, 2012 at 10:39 PM | My girlfriend refers to (Score:4 Normal)
CorkyCole
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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 3rd, 2012 at 1:09 AM | Actually, no. (Score:0 Redundant)
October 3rd, 2012 at 9:23 AM | It could be both (Score:4 Normal)
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October 2nd, 2012 at 9:11 PM | I will give lots of Shrute (Score:5 Normal)
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I will give lots of Shrute bucks to anyone that can convince my boss that spending time on mgoblog will increase my productivity.

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October 2nd, 2012 at 9:11 PM | This is exactly the kind of (Score:5 Normal)
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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! (Score:5 Normal)
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+1 for radioactivity jokes!

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October 2nd, 2012 at 10:00 PM | MGoKittens (Score:4 Normal)
Ernis
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So, Michigan losing horribly increases our productivity?

Disbelieve. I don't want to believe. ROLL TO DISBELIEVE!

October 2nd, 2012 at 10:10 PM | after an embarasing loss I (Score:2 Normal)
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after an embarasing loss I tend to avoid sports talk radio and websites that remind me of the epic fail...so prolly true

October 2nd, 2012 at 10:21 PM | Oh yeah, then why am I not (Score:2)
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Oh yeah, then why am I not studying for the physics exam I have in 2 days? Which reminds me....

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October 2nd, 2012 at 10:34 PM | What kind of field do you (Score:2)
grsbmd
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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 (Score:2)
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Boating Education

October 2nd, 2012 at 10:38 PM | As an expert on the semantics of why-questions, (Score:0 Overrated)
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