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The Placebo Effect (Entry 946.IS3821)

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The Hawthorne Effect

60% of people on both sides are just going to get better naturally. How do you control for that? It depends on how good your estimate of all these factors are. There's also the effect that people want to please an authority figure like a doctor. And there's something called the Hawthorne effect, so named because it was discovered at the Hawthorne plant in Cicero, Illinois.

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