The Anti-Placebo Effect
   Just about everyone is familiar with the placebo effect at this point.
   significant related effect, which I have dubbed the anti-placebo
   a beneficial effect, produced by a placebo drug or treatment, that
   cannot be attributed to the properties of the placebo itself, and must
   they're talking more!"  In other words, an anti-placebo effect is what
   well as they are - due to this cognitive bias creating an anti-placebo
   and anti-placebo effect, you can take steps to account for and correct
   Are you sure that "anti placebo effect" is a good name though? The
   placebo effect refers exclusively to medical treatment if I'm not
     Are you sure that "anti placebo effect" is a good name though?
   It may be that nocebo has a better claim to being an "anti-placebo
     The placebo effect refers exclusively to medical treatment if I'm
   While the placebo effect is generally defined in a medical context,
   people rarely throw type errors when you talk about placebos outside of
   similar to if not the same as the placebo effect.
   In the placebo effect, you try something, see results, and believe
   In the placebo effect, one's beliefs effect change. In the phenomenon
   Interestingly, when I presented the above description of the placebo
   the term, "Opposite-Placebo Effect" or "Opposite of the Placebo Effect"
   Actually the placebo effect is a statistical term covering the entire
   improvement seen in the placebo branch of a trial. Part of the effect
   anti-placebo effect probably consists of many different kinds of known
   What you're describing sounds like the results from the anti-placebo
   don't realize its working (anti-placebo effect), and then you stop and
   I agree anti-placebo isn't a a good name. It's more like a distorted or
   that my taking metrics might create a placebo effect, where people
   So, my response to this was that I was not trying to create a placebo
   effect, but rather, to avoid a placebo effect in the opposite
   a placebo effect.
   In short, people being afraid of having a placebo effect is often how
   expectations, but not in the precise using of the term placebo sense.
   they know nothing about, whereas calling it the anti-placebo effect
   When I saw "anti-placebo effect" I thought of this instead...