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@Leiani: Ambient is the surrounding temperature, it's not an average or an idea. The ambient temperature of a given space could be 30 degrees or 200 degrees. To say, Humans function so much better when the temperature is ambient could mislead some people.
To try to quantify how big the difference is between the optimal temperature for men vs. women, researchers from Maastrict University in the Netherlands recruited 16 women to sit inside a temperature chamber set at 75.2 degrees Fahrenheit (or 24 degrees Celsius), on the warmer end of a typical setting for an office.