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Re:One hour of slow breathing changed my life by perfmode on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @05:51PM (#23981065)
why don’t you simply try it and see?
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Re:One hour of slow breathing changed my life by Rebelgecko on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @05:54PM (#23981086)
How do you handle the placebo effect?
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Re:One hour of slow breathing changed my life by jclos on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @06:07AM (#23985090)
If you are not writing a paper, building a product, or treating it as scientific knowledge does it really matter?
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Re:One hour of slow breathing changed my life by Buttons840 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @06:44PM (#23981482)
Just don't handle it. The placebo effect tells us that some things that have no reason for working, work anyways.
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Re:One hour of slow breathing changed my life by richthegeek on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @04:26AM (#23984505)
That's not what it is at all. The placebo effect tells us that the thing we were doing did not cause the measured effect. If it's a placebo effect causing us to feel calmer, we could as easily hold a can of beans and be calmer if we believed it to cause us to become calmer.
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Re:One hour of slow breathing changed my life by glxxyz on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @08:38AM (#23985956)
No the placebo effect tells us that if we ask some people if some things are working, they tell us that they are working, when those things are not in fact working.
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