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Apparently it's used by about 10% of UK university students, according to a survey: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40979-024-00174-3 https://link.s

Apparently it's used by about 10% of UK university students, according to a survey: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40979-024-00174-3 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40979-024-00174-3 I remember there being kind of a burst of articles about it on HN about ten or fifteen years ago, with a lot of commenters talking about their use of it.

ShinyLeftPad 2mo ago
> The Prolific advert stated that participants were being sought for an anonymous survey on their views on the use of modafinil as a cognitive enhancer by UK university students. Textbook case of "how do we select the most number of people who would say yes" ism. People who are taking modafinil and have a strong opinion about it. If I'm a student I would never click on that ad in the first place if I have never heard of modafinil (like most people haven't), because the survey is about something I don't know. And if I vaguely heard of it and click, there's a friendly awareness page and quiz right at the start about the thing and its side effects that says I won't get paid if I don't answer correctly, what are the chances I'll continue wasting my time?