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RE: The Nocebo Effect: Placebo's Evil Twin

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In Reply to: RE: The Nocebo Effect: Placebo's Evil Twin posted by geoffkait on December 01, 2008 at 17:04:22

YES ... I've writen on a number of forums about this

I've come to the conclusion having demoed cables to a great many people, that the nocebo effect is very real.

Not wanting to describe how I demo cables ..which would bore the pants off everyone sufice to say that I don't offer any information as to what I can hear ..only ask if they can hear ....

professed cables skeptics will not here a cable ...even when its my "clown cable" made of steel ! which is odd as people who have no axes to grind can hear it ...often not audiophiles or actually interested in hifi at all !

so one can ask doe these skeptics hear it but not admit to hearing or genuinely not hear what others do ...now with out getting into there heads or using a polygraph there's no way of telling which it is.

If I take it at face value that they can't hear then there must be a mechanism ...other than poor hearing thats the cause. The Nocebo effect could be just such a way to explain what I've seen ....

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RE: The Nocebo Effect: Placebo's Evil Twin - geoffkait 16:25:07 12/17/08 (0)
Good analysis.

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