"George M. Middius" wrote in message


"Fella" wrote in message


With placebo you take a sugar pill thinking it is aspirin and your
headache goes away, for example. You are anticipating that effect, so it
happens. But with this thing you wouldn't *dare* to anticipate such a
difference! It is that significant.

Note that this paragraph relates placeboes to anticipation or expectation.
Exactly the word placebo is used at the beginning of the paragraph and by
the end of the paragraph the word anticipation is used to explain it.


In passing, I'd add that the term "placebo effect"
is out of place in subjective audio evaluations.

And Middius' qualitifications for making this far-reaching pronouncement is?

Middius has the following relevant education: none known

Middius has the following relevant experience: none known

As you almost stated
in your response, the correct (human) term for the idea Krooger is
trying to articulate is "expectation effect".

In essence Middius is claiming that expectation effects are irrelevant to
anticipations or placebos, while Fella uses an anticipation to explain a
placebo effect.

Well, once these two *experts* settle their semantic differences, I'll
address whatever wisdom if any, that results.