what does placebo and the placebo effect mean?
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A “placebo” is something that administered like a medicine, but does not actually provide a therapeutic effect. For example, giving someone a tic-tac but telling them it’s Adderall. They are often used in medical studies to act as a “control”, meaning testing to see the people who are getting better (or worse) for reasons unrelated to the potential medical treatment.
The “Placebo effect” is that some people actually do (or feel they do) see the benefit from the placebo treatment. For example a person takes a sugar pill and claims it has cured their headache, or stomach ulcer or something like that.
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