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Not when you consider the extremely high impact of lead poisoning.
That’s not how determining causation works, especially when applying it to something so nebulous as “the office.” There is no doubt it had an impact but determining how much vs. other factors is basically impossible if you’re looking at decades and such a broad net.
It's a question on Lemmy, not a rigorous scientific study.
They have a point though. You could make the same argument that office culture is better once computers became ubiquitous during this exact same time period.
Yeah like I get they’re just trying to have a fun thought exercise, but I could point to so many things off the top of my head as reasonable, equally valid explanations
I get that, but the point is you can’t even remotely answer this question without one lol and even then it’s a VERY difficult question to answer.
So yeah you’re right, but then that means it’s a bad question if we’re going to go that route with this. How on earth could any of us determine this, even anecdotally?
I get this seems pedantic but it’s just not a question anyone can answer even informally.