--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 24, 2008, at 10:05 PM, ruthsimplicity wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Jan 24, 2008, at 9:37 PM, ruthsimplicity wrote: > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > But can you guess how they did it? :-) > > > > > > > > > > Hint: this wasn't mere individual bias, it was a bias inherent > > in > > > > the > > > > > procedure itself--one that could be leveraged to make the > > change in > > > > > metabolic rate seem deeper than it was. > > > > > > > > You got me there. I have these visions of the subjects flexing > > their > > > > muscles or stretching, but I don't have a clue. > > > > > > > > > That's another good guess. I would've guessed asanas and pranayama > > > (the basic rounding formula), although I certainly can't rule that > > out. > > > > > > But it's something other than that. I ain't tellin' till someone > > > guesses it though--or bothers to read this paper on their own lazy > > ass > > > and can engage. > > > > > > That's my ante. > > > > > > > Ack! You aren't going to make me look it up, are you? I thought > > about the asanas and breathing, but thought that that would have had > > to be disclosed as part of the process. Pretty soon I am going to be > > speculating about stressful test procedures and rectal temperatures > > being taken. . . > > > > Send me a pm with the facts, hon. > > > Vaj, > > > > Such a tease. Spill the beans you old Master you. Do you think this > > flock will gather here ever again if not for your contributions? > > Without your vastness, what can ours ever be? You complete us as > > spice a dish, as gerUnds do poems, and as prostrations must adore the > > void. > > > > Teach us with silence will ya, Bub? > > > > Edg > > One word: (in original 80's parlance) cannulation. Also consider > "white coat syndrome" etc. If you freak someone out--and then begin > the study...you get a certain result. High heart rate and respiration > rate -> begin study
So my second guess was pretty much it---stressful test procedures. Maybe not rectal temperatures, but. . . . >
