Comments on: Good Stuff, Bad Stuff http://www.ryanholiday.net/good-stuff-bad-stuff/ Meditations on strategy and life Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:06:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Andy http://www.ryanholiday.net/good-stuff-bad-stuff/#comment-9398 Andy Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:27:45 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/good-stuff-bad-stuff/#comment-9398 Full Frontal Feminism is awful, soon after it was assigned I dropped intro to women's studies. Any class that essentially admits that it will be biased going in is probably going to have some problems. And about that maid study, I wouldn't be so sure that "reaffirmed the placebo effect" is the necessarily the right way to put it. It is possible that they actually cleaned in more physically strenuous ways once they realized that they could get exercise from their job. The key difference is whether just thinking of their work as exercise caused them to have lower blood pressure, or whether this thinking caused them to do more physically strenuous activity which would lead anybody to have lower blood pressure over time. Full Frontal Feminism is awful, soon after it was assigned I dropped intro to women’s studies. Any class that essentially admits that it will be biased going in is probably going to have some problems.

And about that maid study, I wouldn’t be so sure that “reaffirmed the placebo effect” is the necessarily the right way to put it. It is possible that they actually cleaned in more physically strenuous ways once they realized that they could get exercise from their job. The key difference is whether just thinking of their work as exercise caused them to have lower blood pressure, or whether this thinking caused them to do more physically strenuous activity which would lead anybody to have lower blood pressure over time.

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