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Good point this could have been better phrased. I think I meant more like "In regards to health, my impression is people talk more about things that worked for them even if they're false positives (placebos, regression to mean etc) than they do about true negatives (things that didn't work)."

(This is different than other things like online reviews for products which are more biased towards negative experiences.)




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