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My ex used to give her friends low doses of her ADHD medication for tech interviews and every one of them said the outcome was significantly better than they ex
by lepus 3y ago
My ex used to give her friends low doses of her ADHD medication for tech interviews and every one of them said the outcome was significantly better than they expected based on other interviews and preparation. I'm not sure what this says about the interview process, but it does indicate that for real-world applications it's more complicated than "stimulant = bad". They say they chose doses that "reflect typical doses in nonmedical settings", but those doses don't reflect what she gave her friends for performance _at all_. Let's reproduce this experiment with starting doses rather than straw-man high doses and see what happens.
- awesomeMilou 3y agoWell yeah, because stimulants raise your confidence level quite a bit. No doubt it worked better. Not that that's a bad thing, it's just an objective side effect of the drug.