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I agree with your intuition, but I'm guessing the parent was referencing this: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/placebo-can-work-even-kn...

I have seen it. I do not believe that this test (or others, yet) compared known placebo treatments to unknown placebo treatments.

I'm a big fan of your music.

I see. Yeah, intuitively you're almost definitely right.