We have had a long cold and foggy
summer in San Francisco. This is due to the Japanese current which
is closer to shore than it has been for decades. No one understands
what determines the movement of the Japanese current.
This blog is not about climate and ocean current ignorance, the theology of Global Warming or its revisionist catechism of Global Climate Change. The blog is about a little research project I did decades ago when I worked in a building without windows. The extended foggy season reminded me.
I wondered how people handled working in a building without windows. I interviewed hundreds of my fellow windowless workers over a three week period. The question I asked was, “What do you think the weather outside is right now?” The interviews were done about three hours after people arrived at work.
The answers were unambiguous: nearly
80% of the people said the weather was overcast.
The actual weather was overcast only 30% of the time I was doing the survey ... it was sunny the other 70%. My fellow employees were very wrong about the weather.
My interpretation of the result was that people felt more like working when they assumed that they weren't missing out on a beautiful sunny day.