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Can explicit suggestions about the harmfulness of EMF exposure exacerbate a nocebo response in healthy controls? 2018, Verrender et al

Discussion in 'Other health news and research' started by Dolphin, Oct 4, 2019.

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  1. Dolphin

    Dolphin Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935118303347?via=ihub

     
  2. John Mac

    John Mac Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    "You can fool some of the people some of the time".........so what's new.
     
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    Occam's razor says the obvious is rather that the assessment of anxiety-related symptoms by questionnaire is a lousy measurement subject to manipulation and is about as reliable as asking participants to self-rate their current blood oxygen saturation.

    Those questionnaires are always biased in favor of producing false positives and always mix up different concepts into a desired meaning. Zero surprise here. Psychometrics are informative but they are not definitive, essentially useless without validation from objective measures.
     
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    Authors seem to be confusing reported symptoms with "symptoms"...
     

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