What's a placebo effect most people don't realise?

check out my second channel bob knob for daily memes r slash ask reddit what is just a placebo effect but most people don't realize how long it takes a co-insta to process and count coins and return a receipt it finishes quickly so quickly that folks are skeptical of the accuracy so a fake delay with fake counting noises was built in giving folks more confidence in the results i'm not sure if it still does this but at one time google docs intercepted the control plus s shortcut and briefly changes the cursor to the thinking cursor hourglass beach ball whatever your computer does you don't need to save your google docs they save every tiny change on the server but people are used to doing it beats headphones have weights inside them to make them heavier and give the illusion of quality and sturdiness i install commercial audio video systems on bigger more involved jobs like stadiums and arenas we have av consultants who don't work for my company but are a big link in the chain as far as designing and eaching the finished system i don't know how many times i've been up in a 80 feet boom lift and they want the azimuth or down angle of a speaker adjusted by some ridiculously small amount so you get back up there bang a couple wrenches on the speaker and don't actually move [ __ ] how's that oh yeah that sounds better works every goddamn time when my cat wants fresh food but he still has some in his bowl i pretend to put more in there he usually falls for it does the bowl have high sides eating out of bowls instead of flat plates can sometimes cause issues with their whiskers touching the side and being over stimulated since they're quite sensitive indeed it does the exaggerated sounds of some vacuum cleaners microwaves and cars to make them sound powerful the loading screens on some apps that make it seem like they are doing something complex i once spoke to a guy involved in developing the first atm cache machines early trials showed that users thought that the dispensing of cash happened too fast and didn't trust that it had correctly debited their account for the right amount so they inserted a weight cycle to make it appear that the machine was counting the cash that weight cycle is still there today in most machines edit woke up to a billion replies telling me that the acronym atm contains the word machine i know this but i included both atm and cash machine for those parts of the world where we don't really use the term atm the original febreze was unscented but nobody believed it worked so they added scent to it that minty fresh zesty clean feeling you get from toothpaste it started as a marketing strategy and caught on and now almost all toothpaste is mint because we associate the minty freshness with cleanliness actually it was to help mask the taste of the stannous fluoride when cake mixes first came out you only had to add water to them but too many housewives felt like that was cheating and wouldn't buy cake mixes so the cake mix companies added another step the eggs it worked apparently the cracking and adding of the eggs to the batter was enough to make it feel more homemade and cake mixes became extremely popular now i'm mad i have probably three cake mixes in my pantry right now that i keep using up all my eggs before getting to make if it wasn't for those housewives i would have had cake by now unbelievable as a former lifeguard i can assure you that whatever cleanup you see lifeguards doing after someone vomits in the pool is almost certainly just show there isn't really anything you can do you just let the filter slash chlorine take care of it and pretend to clean to please the suburban moms your blanket covering your legs yourself from a serial killer at night do commission creative stuff if i deliver same or next day people don't think i spent enough time on it if i wait three days to driver people are happy because they assume i worked on their project non-stop even though i was done a day or two prior i'm freelance artist and once i painted my client's dog portrait with acrylic i took photos and sent it to her and she said she wanted to fix some part of it like hair was too dark and mouth was a little bit too big few hours later i accidentally resent one of the photo i sent to her to her again she immediately relied yes this is what i want i haven't touch up anything more but it's okay dislike some yt comments i never understood that the numbers don't even go down the numbers don't but the comment moves further down in the list if you go to a neutral comment dislike it and then refresh it'll be significantly lower down i swear my car performs better immediately after it's cleaned this one is true though if gran turismo taught me anything it's that washing your car can add 510 hp you're not acting like an insane person because you ate sugar i remember super nanny doing a test on this in a documentary she threw a kid's party gave half the kids sugary snacks and half healthy snacks and the parents had to guess what their kid was given almost all of them were wrong detoxifying nonsense juices your body's liver and kidneys are enough to detoxify your blood you don't need avocado smoothie with cows come inside it whenever i go to look in the back for an item that is clearly sold out my dog's medicine coming out of his treat tin instead of medicine packaging makes a second ago disgusting medicine taste mysteriously treat like it is not uncommon to having a loading screen or icon placed in queries sometimes just because the average user doesn't expect it to be this quick intentional lag on websites when signing up payment processing source i write code sometimes that work turkey doesn't have enough tryptophan to make you sleepy you're most likely sleepy cause you ate too much and your body's in rest and digest mode edit to it it's a placebo when you eat a meal that includes turkey and say you're tired but eat a meal with the same calories and conditions with chicken instead and you don't feel tired it's conditioned into american culture because of overeating at american thanksgiving loading spinners on web pages i once had a user complain to me or where that was too slow and it was pretty fast so i tested him by making the animation spinner spin much faster he went to my boss to praise me how much faster the web app was spin js is what i was using that free shipping is a better deal it generally means they've added the cost into the product instead but you feel like you've gotten a better deal this is 100 true i used to sell furniture at a no gimmicks kind of place where they were open about all cost including delivery i would do the math for people show them how we were still saving them tons of money even with delivery but some people would still walk out and go pay literally hundreds of dollars more for free delivery from ashley's mlms people feel successful when in fact they're losing money this is also why you can't pity buy from someone i know so many people who say they're anti-mlm but then just buy a single item or two when a friend starts to sell that's worse than outright saying now because now you've given them that successful feeling and encourage them to keep going longer and losing more money not sure if it's really placebo but there is research done on how a car door should sound when you close it a flat and boring pack sound would do just fine but a lot of people find that soft plush and yet firm shromp sound reassures them the door is closed someone please do a better job here describing car doors closing because mine sucks who else smashed the down under buttons on the ds or game boy when they were trying to catch a new pokemon kissing a boo boo what no drinking canada dried ginger ale helps with an upset tummy they were sued because their ginger ale has no ginger in it and that was the only stuff that helped when i had the stomach flu as a kid i got the stomach flu a lot too the idea that drinking orange juice shortly before going to bed will keep you from sleeping because of the vitamin c the same people who swear that it works like coffee on them eat raw tomatoes or dinner all summer long and never complain about sleeping issues even though tomatoes contain more vitamin c than a glass of oj wine prices they've done studies that show people think wine tastes better if it costs more but when they do a blind taste test very few people even people who are wine drinkers not everyone there are some people who can tell but it's a pretty small percentage can't distinguish between pretty cheap dollar sign 15 20 bottle and expensive wine your permanent record collegies care more about what you say on twitter and facebook than what you said to dakota in third grade but the only time your permanent record means something is if you transfer within the district a scarecrow in the garden branded painkillers cheap stuff is normally exactly the same and does just the job i saw an article about how apple music made random selection less random because people would often complain the same artist would follow after a song so they made an algorithm to not select a song made by the same artist until after some songs car doors should close really quietly but they're designed to close loudly so you feel safe bubbles and cleaning products early formulations of soap way back when used to naturally form suds newer formulations can clean better but don't naturally produce suds as the bubbling was an incidental side effect that doesn't actually have any bearing on cleaning when these newer soaps were first introduced people complained they didn't work because they didn't make loads of bubbles so the manufacturers started adding a chemical solely to generate bubbles that didn't actually help with the cleaning at all and all the complaints stopped to this day the association of bubbles equals clean is strong enough that they still do it the basically all cleaning products including toothpaste foam up when used and almost without exception the phone is 100 marketing a lot of these psychology tricks and tips you'll see online just in general a lot of them have no scientific proof but they work because everyone thinks they do this is how i actually live my life i just tell myself things like these and placebo myself into changing my mindset or mood yeah shld try it it works when i train tech support our agents would always get pushback from customers when we ask them to power cycle their phone which nine times out of ten would fix their issue so i had them tell the customer to read them some numbers off the back of the battery when they were still removable that we absolutely did not need then we told them we refreshed a few systems and they put their battery back in and it's all fixed alternatively when batteries couldn't be removed we tell them that if the phone was powered on while we did the update it could ruin their sim card so they'd make sure to power off their phone i'd do nothing they'd turn it back on and it worked great but if i had told them to power cycle their phones no way when you give your young sibling an unconnected controller after he she kept bugging to join the game i sold christmas trees as a kid in junior and senior high school learned a trick for super fussy customers who had me hold up multiple trees to show them after the 10th or so tree i'd yell to my co-worker hey mike if they don't want this one put it aside for me nicest tree i've seen this year work like a charm laugh tracks whoa you made it to the end you're a ducking beast i'll cast you a deal smash like and subscribe for more curated content bruh it's free and that's a great price

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Length: 12min 14sec (734 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 02 2020