Dan Ariely - Why Do Placebos Work?
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Well, then, how come there are so many people on real drugs, who never get well? I know a lady who's gone through every test there is, has been under treatment for 8 mos. She's no chicken or idiot. Heck, she'd be a good Vulcan. The pain is still there, the leg swelling etc. symptoms still there. The treatments? $60 a pop. Instead of Chemo, we should treat cancer patients with sugar water. We could charge the same, and doctors & medical corporations could make a fortune!
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also einzige deutsche hier
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do they actually work though, or do people just think they worked or feel like they worked?
what if people just say what they think they are supposed to say, as most folks seem locked in those patterns - the usual, 'i better not say it's that cause that will mean xyz happens, so i'll just tell them what they want to hear' - like if you apply for a fake job and pretend to like the company etc, it's all bs cause they are all bs to begin with.
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1 Person has no human characteristics.
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@SoulsForPaper good guess
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This one time, one of my friends kept complaining of a terrible headache, so I took this as an opportunity to try out the Placebo effect, so I clenched his neck in a few random ways (That I knew would have no effect on him) and I told him it was an old remedy, he believed me and his headache went away.
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Dan raises the question on how our expectations effect our outcomes and the application of this knowledge to the pricing of medicine and services.
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Say its worth $800 but sell it at a "discount" for a special price of $30. Same expensive effect at a cheaper price
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@AzNDraGoN4594 try danarielydotcom or either of his two books
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I'm quite interested in this author and subject. Are they any other recommended reads?
I sold fake weed to a guy and he said he got high.
jiggakilla666 2 years ago 62
Pretty sure the accent is Israeli. Hebrew.
SoulsForPaper 2 years ago 22