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		young_unixer on June 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We can no longer ignore the potential of psychedel... > subjects don't know that there is a difference in the dose they could get, so they can't try to guess what dose they got. Do subjects really believe this? "Even though most trials are done with placebo groups I'm sure this one will be different"

qntty on June 10, 2020 [–]

Both groups are told that they will get psilocybin and they do. Maybe they guess there's a placebo group, but when it starts to kick in, they figure it wasn't them.

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