Peter Attia· MD
their performance increases above a control group that receives just useless information or at least useless as it relates to the task so in both cases by the way the groups are being told the truth stress can be depleting or it can enhance performance but this is different than Placebo because now it's scaling according to the amount and the type of information that they're getting and can you give me a sense of magnitude of benefit or detriment that one could experience in a situation like the one you just described yeah so it's it's striking they're opposite in direction so the stress gets us worse makes you um let's say I think that if we were to just put a rough percentage on this it would be somewhere between 10 and 30 percent worse at performance than the control group and stress is enhancing is approximately equivalent Improvement so they're in opposite directions