tomjtx;152691 Wrote: > > I think there is a fallacy in that reasoning. A study of the > effectiveness of a drug doesn't rely on the psychological state of the > subject(excluding drugs for depression etc.)
That's not true - the placebo effect is important in all trials, not just those for psychoactive drugs, which is the reason they must always be controlled with placebo as well as double-blinded. > > Nor is it a test where the subject himself has to choose the drug which > works best according to how the subject perceives the effects of said > drug. > To question ABX applied to audio does not mean questioning ABX in > medical testing. > Let's compare apples to apples. The subjects of those trials know they are being subjected to a blind test. If blinditis existed it would mean we couldn't trust the results of those trials, since people might react differently when taking the drug under non-trial conditions. It's your logic, not mine. Anyway, you didn't respond to any of my other points... the fact is, it's a pretty silly hypothesis that there could be some psychological effect which only exists during blind trials, and if it is the case, it means we should expect many other such effects which would make any comparison or test useless. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29353 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
