> It's just an n=1 anecdote but my surgeries absolutely changed my life for the better. [...] You can argue placebo but my years of ineffective physical therapy suggest otherwise.
They don't though, do they. You can't disprove placebo with N=1.
If the placebo is the act of surgery then anything not surgery not working doesn't mean that the surgery worked by not placebo means.
They don't though, do they. You can't disprove placebo with N=1.
If the placebo is the act of surgery then anything not surgery not working doesn't mean that the surgery worked by not placebo means.
But who cares how, it worked!