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What is just a placebo effect but most people don’t realize?

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Punxi · F
ScreamingFox · 41-45, F
Materialism
hunkalove · 70-79, M
swirlie · 31-35, F
@hunkalove

Oh come on now... you're not playing right!
FrugalNoodle · 46-50, M
Advertising
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
I don't know about any modern examples, but I remember back in the day, people swore that if you took a green permanent marker and colored on a CD with it, it made the sound better. They call it greening the CD.

It had absolutely zero effect on sound quality, because that's not how CDs and laser beams work, but the people who did it swore they could hear a difference in quality.
@LordShadowfire "but it's digital, bro"
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
The placebo effect may just be random statistical abberations. It also may actually represent unexpected physiological reactions.
GeistInTheMachine · 31-35, M
@samueltyler2 Yes, this.
Thodsis · 51-55, M
The obvious one is religion.

Thoughts about gods might make you feel good.
@Thodsis I’d say anything that has magical thinking at its core. If it’s not science, it’s superstition.
MrSmooTh · 31-35, M
The illusion of control.
swirlie · 31-35, F
Donald J. Trump

 
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