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RE: Let's talk about The Placebo Effect
Hi, we have plenty of wind power plants in our region and I thought of a study I read about nocebo effect with wind power. Popped in my mind now reading this post, as it's kind of backwards placebo, when people assume they are feeling negative effects they will feel negative effects even though there is no harm happening.
If people can stand against up something useful due to their belief of something harming them, people will surely support something harmful or useless when only believing it is helping them.
This is a really cool topic. The same happens with WiFi. There are some funny studies where a person sits in a room with a WiFi router that is either on with lights blinking, on with no lights blinking, off with lights blinking, or off with no lights blinking. The negative response that the people in the room report is entirely due to whether they think the router is on (blinking lights) and has nothing to do with whether it is actually producing WiFi.
I am not surprised by that fact as there are studies from different topics about people reacting to different things and then testing on them if they actually know it or not. I have seen some of tests like this and they have never really felt the thing they should. These have been regarding "electricity allergy" and such. It is no surprise they have never succeeded-
Humans are funny things, huh?