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