Do Economics Students Need to be Tested for Performance Enhancing Drugs?
Do Economics Students Need to be Tested for Performance Enhancing Drugs? Friday January 12, 2007 James D. Miller discusses on his blog that given the importance of standardized tests for students, schools may have to start performing drug tests: “Lots of students take Ritalin to help them study and do well on exams. Students with prescriptions often sell the drug to classmates. I don’t know if the drug helps the average student, but I suspect it does. Given the tremendous importance of the SATs, I imagine many students take Ritalin-like drugs to help them on the SATs. Mandatory SAT blood tests might be the only way to stop this.” (See the full entry) I’ve heard in PhD econ programs where students are ‘weeded out’ that some feel the temptation to take drugs such as Ritalin to improve their concentration – particularly when studying for c
