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Re:The Long Marriage of Mindfulness and Money by vanderZwan on Sunday April 19, 2015 @08:01AM (#9402835)
That's a very specific question, and I'm no expert on the matter. Although I think that comparing it to "placebo meditation" is like comparing two types of exercise to each other, within the larger debate of whether exercising in general is useful or not.

Here's a visualisation by Information Is Beautiful, along with the list of sources used:

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/what-is...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1m_tiYlDIyNpp6WGUgKd5...

Re:The Long Marriage of Mindfulness and Money by sago on Sunday April 19, 2015 @11:42AM (#9403551)
Excellent. The list of articles is interesting. More has been done than I thought had been done, and it is interesting stuff. The visualisation I find a problem, because it masks the nuances of thed studies and verges on the misrepresentation. But the underlying studies definitely feed my concern.

There is the issue of whether mindfulness meditation is anything more than a coincidental piggyback on meditation. But there are several studies in the list that, while not directly controlling for that, certainly provide strong circumstantial evidence (most of the linked research is not about mindfulness at all).

So I definitely take back the more extreme tone of my skepticism, (for whatever that is worth!)