Morendil comments on Fallacies of reification - the placebo effect - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Morendil 14 September 2012 04:03:34PM 2 points [-]

You can teach people about placebos (or about control responses, or about proper controls in general) without needing to perpetuate the errors stemming from a poorly-named "placebo effect" and the hidden inferences that come with the term "effect".