| ▲ | wongarsu 5 hours ago | |
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 | ||
| ▲ | literalAardvark 4 hours ago | parent [-] | |
It's much more than a bias. You actually get better through placebo, as long as there's a pathway to it that is available to your body. It's a really weird effect. The fight isn't against triggering placebo, it's against letting it muddle study results. | ||