What's worse is he linked to an article about how "the placebo effect has been increasing in America" without reading it The fact it's steadily increasing is evidence it's a statistical artifact and it's NOT a sign that Americans' spiritual power of positive thinking is growinghttps://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1243183599584792576 …
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It's like how the Flynn effect (IQ scores keep on going up with every generation) is evidence that *something is wrong with the way IQ tests work*, not that we're all objectively twice as smart and twice as good at solving life problems as our great-grandparents were
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(The most obvious explanation being "gaming the metrics", that as testing has become more a part of everyone's lives we just get better at taking tests Something similar is probably going on with "professional patients" in clinical trials)
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