There may be a literal link to an incandescent lightbulb flashing on, and creativity:<\/p>\n
The researchers first wanted to see if light bulbs actually were unconsciously linked to enlightenment<\/span><\/a> in people’s minds. In a preliminary experiment, 73 college students<\/span> watched as words were flashed across a computer screen. They viewed 10 words associated with insight – such as create, conceive, and envision -10 other words and 20 non-words. They were then asked to respond as quickly and as accurately as possible if what they were shown was a word or non-word.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u00a0Then they controlled for the bulbs themselves:<\/p>\n
The students had either a bare, unshaded incandescent 25-Watt light bulb or an overhead fluorescent light<\/span> turned on in the room. Volunteers exposed to the light bulb<\/span> responded quicker to words linked to insight than other words, supporting the notion that light bulbs were indeed connected to insight in their minds<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n
\u00a0To see if light bulbs could actually promote insights, Slepian and his colleagues next gave college students spatial, math and verbal problems to solve and had either a bare light bulb or an overhead fluorescent light<\/span> turned on in the room partway into the problem. The volunteers either solved the problems faster or more often with the light bulb than with the fluorescent light.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Thus the left’s push for compact fluorescents literally is <\/em>dumbing down America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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