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Even Knowingly Taking A Placebo Seems To Help (2010)

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Re: Even Knowingly Taking A Placebo Seems To Help (2010)

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No worries, I've really enjoyed your postings on many topics, mostly around hiring techniques (and have always been a big fan of Hunter & Schmidt). I think that I am somewhat biased, given that I started a PhD in the placebo effect around then, so I actually (sortof) know all of these people. I would argue that there are a few problems with placebo research as currently practiced. 1) clinical studies without no-treat…

That's fascinating. What did you leave science to do?

I work for a tech company as an analyst. Better perks, less ethical committees, and (somewhat) more career stability.

Re: Even Knowingly Taking A Placebo Seems To Help (2010)

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Ah, I see what the issue is here. I typically (used to) work in experimental placebo research, rather than clinical placebo research (I'm a psychologist by trade) so I would be more interested in those studies, rather than clinical trials. In terms of what's left over after accounting for no treatment, Vase and H&G got into a big academic fight about this, and it appears that the effect size for placebo effects in pa…

Are you posting your thesis online? I'd like to have a look.

Its on Github, in a private repository. When I'm finished, I plan to make the repository public (which is probably going to be embarrassing).
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