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Sprouts | The Powerful Placebo Effect in Modern Medicine @sprouts | Uploaded September 2019 | Updated October 2024, 43 minutes ago.
A placebo is a treatment with zero therapeutic value but magical healing power. To understand better how placebos work, let’s look at Mr. and Mrs. Martin, who both suffer chronic back pain...

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Read the entire script here: docs.google.com/document/d/14YGEhsj3QtXJVhEkih851iFxLQucZ-VSF4X1bxHwXUw/edit?usp=sharing

Sources:

Reconsidering the Placebo Response from a Broad Anthropological Perspective
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2730465

Sham surgeries: A tale of medical reversals & the role of the media healthnewsreview.org/2017/12/sham-surgery-medical-reversals-media

Placebo Effect of the Heart
theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/11/placebo-effect-of-the-heart/545012

The neuroscience of placebo effects: connecting context, learning, and health
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6013051

Two-year results of a randomized placebo-controlled trial of vertebroplasty for acute osteoporotic vertebral fractures.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24967454

Spinal Fracture Treatment
nytimes.com/2019/01/24/health/spinal-fracture-treatment.html

The Honest Placebo Studies
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/placebos-work-even-without-deception

$The Powerful Placebo Effect in Modern Medicine A placebo is a treatment with zero therapeutic value but magical healing power. To understand better how placebos work, let’s look at Mr. and Mrs. Martin, who both suffer chronic back pain... This video was made with the support of our sponsors: Avigail, Badrah, Cedric Wang, Eva Marie Koblin, da7idj, Denis Kraus, Gilad Karni, Jakob Dannesboe, John Zhang, Julien Dumesnil, Mathis Nu, and all the others!!! You keep us going! If you want to join, visit http://www.patreon.com/sprouts Read the entire script here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14YGEhsj3QtXJVhEkih851iFxLQucZ-VSF4X1bxHwXUw/edit?usp=sharing Sources: Reconsidering the Placebo Response from a Broad Anthropological Perspective https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2730465/ Sham surgeries: A tale of medical reversals & the role of the media https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2017/12/sham-surgery-medical-reversals-media/ Placebo Effect of the Heart https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/11/placebo-effect-of-the-heart/545012/ The neuroscience of placebo effects: connecting context, learning, and health https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6013051/ Two-year results of a randomized placebo-controlled trial of vertebroplasty for acute osteoporotic vertebral fractures. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24967454 Spinal Fracture Treatment https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/health/spinal-fracture-treatment.html The Honest Placebo Studies https://hms.harvard.edu/news/placebos-work-even-without-deception$ $Ball-Parking: Get Better Grades Through Elimination Learn how to improve your grades using the ballparking technique, in this 4:55 minute long video lesson. Use ballparking when you have no time to solve the complete problem. Join us at https://www.patreon.com/sprouts and check out the GMAT training app from The Economist at https://gmat.economist.com. We took our math example from there and its a great tool to learn for the GMAT and train your thinking. Script: Ball-parking is a technique that helps us to solve problems quickly. Instead of trying to get the perfect result, we make a fast, intelligent guess. Just like in baseball. To score, we dont need to hit the ball perfectly. Often we just need to keep it inside the ballpark. The technique is useful in conversations and is essential to passing certain tests. To watch this video most effectively, grab a pen and paper, and try solving the following two problems as we present them. Just pause whenever you see this sign. Let’s start easy! What do you think is the most popular food in the world? Could it be Italian, Japanese, American fast food, or something else? As it is impossible to get an exact answer, let’s look at what we may already know. In Italy, there are around 50 million people, in Japan about 100 million and in North America about 500 million. But in China or in India there live over a billion people. Now we can use the process of elimination and make a ballpark estimate that Chinese and Indian food is probably the most popular. Now lets try something a little harder. Imagine that you are doing a complicated math test for something like the GMAT exam. Then you might just 2 minutes to solve complex problems in your head. Maybe something like the square root of 5 times the square root of 24, plus 5 divided by, 5 plus 2 times the square root of 6. Then youre given five multiple-choice answers: A, B, C, D or E. If we would try to solve it, we would probably run out of time. Ball-parking is now the only option. You can try it on your own or do it with us. Look at the equation. Lets look at the first part, the square root of 24. Since the square root of 24 is difficult to calculate in your head, think of a close enough number to the square root of 24 that would be easier for you. The square root of 25 comes to mind. To which the answer is 5. Let’s now write down the new simpler equation and then again even simpler. Now, what about the fraction? It looks hard, but lets try! Even if we dont know what 5 plus 2 times the square root of 6 is, we do know that its more than 5. So lets write it again and just call the denominator [6.1] “more than 5”. And because 5 divided by anything larger than 5 must be smaller than 1, we can just write “25 plus less than 1 or the square root of 25. And that equals approximately 5. Lets now look at the options we were given. Lets look at the equation and each possible choice. A is clear and doesnt look bad. B is 5 plus 2 times the square root of 6 which is something like 7 or more. That doesnt look right. C is the square root of something that comes out to be 3 or less. Thats too small. What about D? The square root of 120. We dont know that, but we do know that the square root of 100 is 10. Lets just write 10 or more. That looks too high. Last, there is E. 5 divided by 2 times the square root of 6. Now for 2 times the square root of 6 lets just write “more than 2”. And 5 divided by something thats more than 2 also looks too small. Now we use the process of elimination and cross out all the wrong answers to see whats left. A, it is. Now its your turn. Try ball-parking the number of views that you think this video will have by the end of this year and win your favorite Sprouts gift on Patreon.com/Sprouts We will count all entries submitted by August 31st and announce the winner on the 1st of January. To join, just leave your ballpark figure in the comments below. And if you want, tell us how you did it. Those of you who post later than August 31st will enter next years round of Sprouts Ballpark Awards. Good luck! SOURCES Visit https://gmat.economist.com/$

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