On 8/29/06, Sandwichman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/29/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There ought to be a pilot project: pick 200 unhappy people; and give
> therapy to 100, free of charge, and give, say, $3,000 a month (after
> tax), no strings attached, each to the other 100, and see which group
> gets well faster.
I don't know what the outcome would be, but I'll volunteer to be in
the second group.
If choice is given to subjects, I suppose there won't be any experiment. :->
On 8/29/06, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/29/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There ought to be a pilot project: pick 200 unhappy people; and give
> therapy to 100, free of charge, and give, say, $3,000 a month (after
> tax), no strings attached, each to the other 100, and see which group
> gets well faster.
that's hardly a "double blind" study (the "gold standard" of such
research) or anything like it. How about giving 200 people
cognitive-behavioral therapy and giving 200 a placebo, such as
Freudian therapy?
Or how about cognitive-behavioral therapy and religion, which is said
to be the opium of people?
Or cognitive-behavioral therapy and Marxism, though I suspect Marxism
is not a placebo but a downer?
--
Yoshie
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