Comment by disgruntledphd2
2 years ago
> Seems likely to be a placebo. You have a vested interest in it working, admit its not based on any sort of science, and one of the setup steps is to overcome distraction (which is the problem that’s trying to be solved).
Fundamentally, if it works for the OP, who the hell cares?
And how would you even double-blind test this anyway?
> And how would you even double-blind test this anyway?
Get lights that either start fast and slow down or blink at speeds that randomly change then use serial numbers to track which lights are which, but send them out at random to test subjects?
Which treatment you're in is relatively easily detectable, so unfortunately that wouldn't work.
I like the approach though, it would be a reasonable control condition (assuming that the 60bpm is a core part of the effect).
you would blind the participants to the effect you are looking to measure. If they don’t know what to expect or what conditions there are, they can still get a placebo effect from random patterns.
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Trivially, given a small amount of money.
He sees a correlation, correlations are amongst the easiest thing to test.
Causation is the difficult one