Four: Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions
Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours
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Do You Feel Better Now?
There's a lot of what we call pasibo is just regression to the mean, that people come in for treatment when they'redoing particuarly badly, and then they just tend to improve. I think you get the biggest, actual pase of efet when you just ask people after the thing, do you feel better now? Or like, ye yes. At les te objactive judgment. That was found the strongest specicyof effect. It's still weaker, i think, in this study, than a lot of people think it is. But they did find it when they didn't tend to find it. Ortings are like objective measures like heart rat or that kind
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