Okay, so we’re not really puttinga microchip into Phil, but I need him to think we are,it...
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Okay, so we’re not really putting
a microchip into Phil, but I need him to think we are,
it gives me a tool to work with, namely the placebo effect which is when a medical treatment
works better just because we expect it to, and in some tests placebo has made
a treatment twice as effective
a microchip into Phil, but I need him to think we are,
it gives me a tool to work with, namely the placebo effect which is when a medical treatment
works better just because we expect it to, and in some tests placebo has made
a treatment twice as effective
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Okay, so we’re not really putting
a microchip into Phil,
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but I need him to think we are,
it gives me a tool to work with,
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namely the placebo effect
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which is when a medical treatment
works better just because we expect it to,
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and in some tests placebo has made
a treatment twice as effective.
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Movie Summary
Illusionist Derren Brown concocts a psychological experiment in which he tries to manipulate an ordinary person into taking a bullet for a stranger
