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06-20-2015, 03:00 PM | #21 (permalink) |
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Placebo effect is quite powerful. If you'll only be using testimony to assert your claims I think my assertion is better to put your trust in.
@grindy Me too. You should help me ruin other people's paradigms. Albert Einstein never failed math.
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06-20-2015, 03:01 PM | #22 (permalink) |
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This is the definition of anecdotal evidence, which is something that is not accepted as valid in any intelligent conversation
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We've already had this discussion in another thread. There is NO cure for the common cold.
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06-20-2015, 03:07 PM | #25 (permalink) | |
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06-20-2015, 03:24 PM | #26 (permalink) |
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I wouldn't put it as crassly as YD did, but proving a point in a scientific debate with personal experience is a no no. How do you know that there wasn't a confounding factor that helped you get better or if the placebo effect is at play or something else along those lines? Scientific studies work to reduce that uncertainty that comes from a single person's observations since we tend to come at these types of things with a bias whether we like it or not. Proving it on a grander scale would be enough to sway my opinion, but so far that hasn't happened in a non corporately funded study yet as far as I know. That's why I asked if you had any evidence that wasn't anecdotal.
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06-20-2015, 03:29 PM | #27 (permalink) |
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Pretty much. The multiple semester-long classes I've taken on how to conduct research and how to differentiate valid vs invalid evidence has drilled this into my brain so deep that when someone tries to pass off anecdotal evidence in a discussion like this it just boils my blood.
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06-20-2015, 03:31 PM | #29 (permalink) |
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YD never made a post when he wasn't pissed off for some reason.
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06-20-2015, 03:32 PM | #30 (permalink) |
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Well I certainly wasn't pissed off last night whilst tripping on mushrooms
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