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Does he need to? It's his own body. If I burn my hand on a stove, am I obligated to to do a blinded A/B test with N=15 before I decide, for my own personal cas
by alexandercrohde 8y ago
Does he need to? It's his own body.
If I burn my hand on a stove, am I obligated to to do a blinded A/B test with N=15 before I decide, for my own personal case, that the hot stove caused the burn mark?
I don't get why you're putting people on trial for noticing their own individual reactions to food. The article itself admits some people are sensitive to MSG.
- vict00ms 8y agoParent brought up A/B, the person you're responding to asked if it was blinded. Doesn't seem like the affront you're making it out to be, it's an innocuous follow-up question.
- dymk 8y agoYes, for something like “msg causes headaches”, that needs to be blinded to discern if there’s a placebo effect happening. It’s not nearly as straightforward as “touch hot surface, get burned”.
- __david__ 8y agoBecause people are notoriously terrible at this kind of self diagnosis. I'm going to answer an anecdote with an anecdote here, but I was getting headaches that were completely correlated with food containing MSG. I "researched it" (cursorily google searched) and found that MSG was totally safe so I didn't want to believe it, but the correlation was there. Later I found out I had high blood pressure—the high MSG foods were also high sodium and the sodium was kicking my blood pressure up really high and causing headaches. When I got my blood pressure under control I tried MSG again and no headaches at all. The body is complicated and things aren't always what they seem to be to our pattern seeking brains.