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Standing desks may boost students’ cognitive function as well as health
- akeck 11y agoAnecdata: I stand half the day and sit half the day. I definitely get my focus back after switching. It doesn't matter which I do first. Doing either all day is pretty rough. Standing all day is a little worse than sitting all day.
- benbreen 11y ago"Following 27 high school freshman over one school year, researchers found that using a standing desk generally improved the kids’ neurocognitive test scores by seven to 14 percent. The tests, given both at the beginning and end of the school year, evaluated cognitive processes such as reasoning and working memory." I'm not well versed in how to set up a study like this, but is 27 really a sufficient sample size? It seems like a small enough number that it would be very hard to draw inferences generalizable to all students in the US.
- meric 11y agoI agree and additionally, if a researcher was present in the class it might make the students more alert and aware they're being scrutinised, improving their scores by 7 to 14 percent. A control may not be effective if the control students are aware nothing has changed in the class.