hirsch;190671 Wrote: > If you've never heard of a genetic marker, it's fairly safe to say that > you're not currently in the biological sciences. > > <snip> > > It is rather naive to hold onto conclusions from old cognitive psych > studies in the face of new evidence. Do go back and look at the > variances in those studies. Just because placebo effects occur does > not mean that they occur in everyone.
I know very well what a genetic marker is - what I said was that it sounds extremely unlikely that the existence of something as complicated as susceptibility to placebo, which is understood by psychologists to be a fundamental characteristic of the human thought process, might be 100% correlated with something as simple as a few changes in DNA. If so it would imply that there are two categories of people, who think in a fundamentally different way. That sounds vastly oversimplified, and if that is indeed the conclusion drawn by the researchers it sounds naive and highly dubious. But intriguing nonetheless... do you have a reference? -- 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
