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we're trying to find a way to deal with all of the rising health care costs
related to obesity and axial researchers at philadelphia's children's hospital
decided that maybe it's a good idea to give your employees
attach incentive so in order to do this experiment they had three different
groups they had a control group and of course you can control group didn't
receive any money for losing weight then they had one group known as the
individual incentive group everyone in that group would get hundred dollars at
the end of the month if they met their weight goal and the final group was the
group incentive in this case uh... there's a group of five people and
there's a pot of five hundred dollars it everyone leaves are way cool each person
gets a hundred dollars if only to our people meet their weight goal well those
two people have to start the five hundred dollars so that means that if
everyone else fails and you when you can get that entire five hundred dollar
check arts faucets that gets a competitive juices flowing
threats in different directions on homes away
pain-free goes for everybody habitat was so here to try to undercut people
seeing now and that they could command
thank you i love it because this is the kind of signs that i love because
competitive ness uh... you know weight loss incentives all that stuff is really
interesting to me you put it all together you have one juicy story let me
tell you what the results are so when it comes to adn individual incentive group
the group that gets the hundred dollars a state meet their goal
they lost on average about three point six pounds okay
the same for the control group they didn't
means that much weight of course because they didn't really have an incentive so
it's interesting because the the people didn't have an incentive to keep pretty
close to the people who did just a flat-out evi
do this to get a hundred bucks so you would have thought the guys with the
financial settlement done a little better but not by much less surprising
and they want up uh...
regaining a lot of the way
rain when now when you get to the competitive group totally div
it is totally different in fact they lost on average ten point six pounds and
any cap the weight off
so uh...
used to parts of the straight was accomplished in the other is
if you tell people there's a batch of money
and it's gonna disappear if you don't get it
it's that incentivize that like
well i gotta get before goes away
right so it's it's so there's a reported in
in psychology et cetera but it's a fascinating phenomenon plus is all
that's missing the to look for example if the employer says
hey you know what i i'm going to added hundred-dollar steer chakkar or
something you don't see that
they're not as small rated by
but if they say i'm going to give you a hundred-dollar packages you have a like
a waiter
by this is about
yes other researchers at if you know it right in that incentivize your employees
by saying hey or did it take
you know a hundred dollars off of your health care premium or something like
that people are going to be as motivated so it's really really depends on how you
carry this out if you give them a check grecian given cash than all the sudden
they're much more motivated
and as you mentioned you know putting it into their paycheck or something that
that doesn't work
right so uh...
the part where you mark
worry the monies to be dion is called loss of her she
it's one thing to get new money it's another thing too
use money
you feel you kind of already have in a sense
as if you need to go and get frankly
industry-leading anybody's ever played fantasy football
if you don't have a player like that maybe he's ok but he's already on your
team or wait a minute
you want to trade up where i don't know about that
that there's a mighty murray okay
and that's what solution
so we can buy the rates are actual
perspective so uh... and i you know if you missed
you know this that's why i'm not only be led great that godless liberals a little
segment on humans lol
cooperative and love each other
no we do is give each other uh... its
or if you're in a weight loss competition team get off five hundred
bucks
you try to little harder
he's taken out of the knees ship i would say so competition of course a huge part
of
human psychology as well for me so let's keep it real