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How do you know you are not one of the 10%?

• raverbashing 11y ago
  Ignoring the scope of the study, let's ask a question Treatment A had a 10% effectiveness, Placebo had 10% as well (which for some kind of 'talk therapy' - and for a lot of other things may not have an exact placebo, but let's assume it is) is another 10% Question: Are those the same 10%? Or with a better example, naive blood transfusion (that is, if you ignore blood type) has a low rate of success
  • netrus 11y ago
    Naive blood transfusion has a low success rate, but it is surely higher than with placebo blood transfusion (whatever that would look like).
    • raverbashing 11y ago
      But when it doesn't work it usually kills the patient, so there's that