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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Results of sugar test
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Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 20:47:48 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 11 20:47:48 1985
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	Rather than answer each request individually by mail (this one
was returned by Bellcore anyway):


Subject: Re: Stoll's experiment
To: mwg at PHILABS/CMCL2/BELLCORE
Cc: werner
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	Yes and no.
	I gave 30 seconds to rest before the sugar cube and 15 seconds after.
Of ten medical students, 9 had no effect, 1 could go either way (tiredness,
perhaps). Anyway, 1/10 is less than 95%.
	No attempt was made to make this double-blind, since the protocol
distinctly called for otherwise, and I didn't want to be accused of changing
the rules too much.

	Two alternate conclusions can be drawn.
	1.  Kinesiology is wrong
or	2. Medical students are all selected from the other 5%.
(The latter explanation actually would explain a lot of things.)

-- 

				Craig Werner
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     "The proper delivery of medical care is to do as much Nothing as possible"