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How Susceptible Are You to Misinformation? There's a Test You Can Take
  • Thanks! What an incredibly shit survey. They're asking me to judge based on headline alone without any further content. It entirely misses the point of how to judge the truthfulness of the headline - by reading further information!!!

  • Do psychedelics really work to treat depression and PTSD? Here's what the evidence says
  • The difference is that placebo is an objectively measureable benefit, regardless of whether they report being better or not.

    Misreporting is a reported benefit, regardless lf whether they are objectively measureably better or not.

    E.g. joint inflammation could be an example. Measurable reduction in inflammation with a calipers could be induced by placebo, even if patient doesn't report feeling better. But reporting feeling better may not come with any measured reduction in swelling.

    Placebo is not (just) in the mind, it is in the entire body!

    I acknowledge it is less clear-cut in mental health, but I just wanted to answer the general question outside of this specific context.

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    gnom
  • Yeah, leave, stop playing, don't give good feedback. We also do a sharp AH noise when pushing them off - not a scary/mean shout, just enough of an attention grab that they learn that we mean "don't do that".

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  • My cats like attacking little wriggly things - feet are very good little wriggly things. When they were young they didn't connect them as part of me, so always were attacking. Still have to be careful sticking my feet out from the covers after 3 years, every couple of weeks I still get a pounce.

  • Dark Matter Might Interact in a Totally Unexpected Way With the Universe
  • The article never said anything about dimensions we can't perceive. It talked about non-locality, which is a property of many particles, not just dark matter. The entirety of quantum computing is based around quantum entanglement, for example, which is also a non-local phenomenon.

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