ABSTRACT
In this paper an attempt has been made to estimate the optimum comfort temperature - by means of the Probit method of analysis - for five data sets collected from three factories in Northern India, and in doing so reinforce the notion of adaptability. The results did show some evidence of adaptation amongst the factory workers, but the environments they were subjected to pushed the workers to the extremes of human endurance, with the predicted optimum temperature for comfort being, in all cases, well below the mean recorded globe temperature.
