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The Placebo Effect (Entry 946.IS3821)

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Do Antidepressants Really Work?

How many people do you need in any one of those three Danish groups for the results to be useful? I mean, don't you need at least Denmark's very small. Each of these groups is one person. There's, you need to find three guys. Sven gets the good drug. It seems like you would need 300 people in each group just to account for variation of just like normal variation. Yes. That's why when you call people and ask if you're going to vote Democrat or Republican,. You need to call 5,000 people even still it's just people that have phones. Average age of respondent 96. So the magical power of the placebo response is kind of overrated

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