| ▲ | pipes 5 hours ago | |||||||
I don't understand how the placebo effect is a human bias. Is it? | ||||||||
| ▲ | wongarsu 5 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||
At least in some instances you could frame it that way: You believe that doctors and medicine are effective at treating disease, so when you are sick and a doctor gives you a bottle of sugar pills and you take them, you now interpret your state through the lens that you should feel better. A bias on how you perceive your condition That's not all that the placebo effect is. But it's probably the aspect that best fits the framing as bias | ||||||||
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