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by epmaybe 3435 days ago
When I was in a course on health disparities, we referred to this phenomenon as the "John Henry effect"

"The term was first used by Gary Saretsky (1972) to describe the behavior of John Henry, a legendary American steel driver in the 1870s who, when he heard his output was being compared with that of a steam drill, worked so hard to outperform the machine he died in the process"