Like how does the pill translate to feeling well in reality just through imagination /perception of the problem being solved / altered .
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there’s other factors that they’re trying to account for when they give people placebos, like regression to the mean (ie people who were feeling better/worse than average gradually returning to the “average” state). basically it’s to control for a bunch of factors that can affect the outcomes of a trial – and it’s not the only thing they do to control for these factors
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