Re:Telling the Bees
by tsimionescu on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @02:50AM
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Placebo refers to any effect where a patient's outcomes seem to improve for reasons not related to the specific intervention attempted. Regression to the mean, incorrect data collection, psycho-somatic effects etc are all elements of placebo, in various degrees in various instances.
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Well, fair enough. To split hairs ever finer, though...
Placebo is present in all circumstances, as is nocebo.
Regression to the mean is a statistical phenomenon. It can help aid understanding of the size and role of placebo effects, but it isn't a part of the placebo effect. Ditto data collection and analysis.
But yeah, I'm probably splitting hairs :)