OK. Judging from much of this discussion, it hasn’t really done that well. My taboo request was prompted because I was confused about why you would make two completely distinct points, namely the conceptual/reification point and the point that expectation effects are mostly bunk, in the same post, unless there is some sort of weird connection I’m missing.
Somewhat echoing gwern’s “why do we care”—can you taboo “placebo effect”?
That’s basically what I thought the article was doing.
OK. Judging from much of this discussion, it hasn’t really done that well. My taboo request was prompted because I was confused about why you would make two completely distinct points, namely the conceptual/reification point and the point that expectation effects are mostly bunk, in the same post, unless there is some sort of weird connection I’m missing.