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Reversion to the mean is not the placebo effect. The placebo effect is what you're calling the "actual" placebo effect, and in many cases produces objectively
by svachalek 8y ago
Reversion to the mean is not the placebo effect. The placebo effect is what you're calling the "actual" placebo effect, and in many cases produces objectively measurable results, which is why they need to account for it in drug trials: you compare both the drug and the placebo to the control group and see if the drug exceeds the placebo. As far as I know, practically every such drug trial validates that the placebo effect is real.
- 08-15 8y agoYou're wrong, at least according to Wikipedia. But I don't want to argue semantics, I just want one study that shows a measurable (not self-reported) effect. Just one. Please?
- jose_zap 8y agohttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/1286471/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/1286471/ Retrospectively analyzes patients who got placebo, vs natural course patients. Placebo group fared better in physical exercise compared to the natural course group.