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That's two variables — caffeination and the psychedelic. How are you controlling for which compound has which effects? EDIT: Leaving aside the whole, you know
by rosser 10y ago
That's two variables — caffeination and the psychedelic.
How are you controlling for which compound has which effects?
EDIT: Leaving aside the whole, you know, "Dosing your unsuspecting coworkers with acid" thing. Not very cool. Or legal (beyond the drug, itself).
- Schizotypy 10y agoThe variable is just the lsd. Caffeine is constant in both control and experimental groups. Plus the organisms would most likely exhibit caffeine seeking behavior anyhow.
- ahoy 10y ago> One group gets decaf coffee with an LSD microdose > One group gets normal coffee.
- civilian 10y agoWell, first of all, you need to somehow administer the LSD dose. From a tactical perspective, the coffee makes sense. Second of all LSD, has a bit of a stimulant "excitable" effect. So you might want to give them Decaf to compensate. You're right that it's a confounding variable though, and there's a good chance that people like me would be less productive because of the decaf, especially if the LSD dose was too small. https://erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_effects.shtml https://erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_effects.shtml
- milcron 10y agoFun fact: The first time the Beatles did LSD, they were unknowingly dosed by their dentist.
- rosser 10y agoYep. In their coffee, in fact.
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- eric_h 10y agoFortunately (according to [0]) they were told about it before the dose kicked in. 0) https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/the-oral-history-of-the-beatles-first-two-acids-trips-legs-mcneil-gillian-mccain https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/the-oral-history-of-the-b...