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My understanding is that the "placebo effect" doesn't refer to biased numbers or reporting, but exists when everything is measured correctly. It is objectively
by Crito 13y ago
My understanding is that the "placebo effect" doesn't refer to biased numbers or reporting, but exists when everything is measured correctly. It is objectively there, not a screwy result.
- yaddayadda 13y agoYou're correct. What saalweachter was describing are ways to minimize threats to reliability and validity. - http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/relandval.php http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/relandval.php - http://www.mathcs.duq.edu/~packer/Courses/Psy624/Validity.html http://www.mathcs.duq.edu/~packer/Courses/Psy624/Validity.ht... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_validity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_validity - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_validity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_validity
- saalweachter 13y ago"Biased" is probably a loaded word. I think I may have implied intent without meaning to. But basically, the placebo effect only exists for subjective measurements. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo#Mechanism_of_the_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo#Mechanism_of_the_effect) If something exists only in subjective measurements and not objective measurements... I'll let you draw your own inference.