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antupis
39 days ago
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Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying the...
If you have ADHD, for neurotypical people it might feel that you are performing better but results will not improve
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/smart-drugs-can-decrease...
phainopepla2
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It's a small study and the "knapsack task" probably does not generalize to writing a paper or coding or something. Far from dispositive.
greygoo222
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Utter bullshit engineered to convince students not to do drugs. Adderall doesn't make you magically better at solving the knapsack problem, it's not NZT-48 from Limitless. That's not why anyone takes it.
astrange
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> it's not NZT-48 from Limitless
Yeah, that's modafinil.
(Or for social situations, bromantane.)
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