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Re:Upgrade Your Memory with a Surgically Implanted Chip by thih9 on Sunday June 16, 2019 @01:53PM (#20196853)
This seems an offtopic generalisation and looks unhelpful to me in this context.

I’d like it more if it linked to a study. Or if it had more details, preferably addressing placebos too.

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Re:Upgrade Your Memory with a Surgically Implanted Chip by pBody on Sunday June 16, 2019 @02:37PM (#20197129)
It seems that way, but it’s not.

https://europepmc.org/abstract/med/9078698

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28166019

There is a depressing amount of evidence that doctors don’t have a basic level of statistical literacy.

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