Great article with terrific examples. My one objection is the explanation of “placebo”. There is no actual “placebo effect”. In reality there is regression to the mean, false attribution, error of judgement, or delusion. This is why it’s so important to have a placebo control in studies, to enable deduction of placebo data from the intervention data in order to try to calculate actual efficacy.
Great article with terrific examples. My one objection is the explanation of “placebo”. There is no actual “placebo effect”. In reality there is regression to the mean, false attribution, error of judgement, or delusion. This is why it’s so important to have a placebo control in studies, to enable deduction of placebo data from the intervention data in order to try to calculate actual efficacy.
Thanks!