hirsch;190611 Wrote: > > The "placebo effect" in audio has become is a fallback position for > people who want to invalidate what others report hearing without going > through the work of measuring and listening themselves. In other words, > it means absolutely nothing. There are real placebo effects in > psychology and pharmacology, but very few people who cite them in audio > actually have looked at the research on conditions under which these > effects occur, and consequently have astonishingly poor understanding > of them.
I studied cognitive psych for a while, and in the process read many papers on these effects. I've never heard of this genetic marker idea - it sounds vastly oversimplified and rather naive to attribute such a complex phenomenon to a single gene, and it goes against everything we have learned from cog psy studies - namely that these effects are a basic part of the way we think. It's not necessary to be able to explain the origins of placebo to worry about its effects invalidating uncontrolled tests - you just need to know that it exists. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33547 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
