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You know that you can't do double blind studies of stuff with such obvious effects, right? Anyone taking it instead of a sugar pill knows which pill they got.
by xenophanes 15y ago
You know that you can't do double blind studies of stuff with such obvious effects, right? Anyone taking it instead of a sugar pill knows which pill they got.
- Jach 15y agoIf you read some self-blinding studies for things like modafinil et al. you'll see this isn't always the case. (They get surprised when they find out at the end of the experiment cycle that a particular pill on a particular day was just a sugar pill.) Placebo effects are weird. In any case while the plural of anecdotes is not "data" I still think anecdotes are valuable.
- nerfhammer 15y agoLet's discard all statistical approaches to research then Gut reactions and vague impressions will get us by, just like they always have
- xenophanes 15y agoLet's find applicable ones that work for our research, instead of always saying "double blind" without thinking about it.