• Kairos
    link
    fedilink
    52
    edit-2
    10 months ago

    “Words truly matter” but I can’t understand for the life of me what these ones mean. Can someone help me out?

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      1710 months ago

      Words have powers bordering on magic, I guess is the idea.
      And for many people that’s true, for as long as they are willing to believe that.

      So I guess what I’m saying is that placebos have powers bordering on magic.

      • Kairos
        link
        fedilink
        210 months ago

        If this is an explanation it doesn’t make it clearer

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            210 months ago

            I watched a youtube video about it. It’s temperature that dictates how a snowflake looks. Simple as that.

          • Kairos
            link
            fedilink
            210 months ago

            Thank you. The thing I was missing was the fact that the other one had mold.

            • @[email protected]
              link
              fedilink
              1
              edit-2
              10 months ago

              Ah, yes! Of course, there’s that other half of the post - the “experiment” itself. What I said about words applies to the people involved, it’s not the mold in the jar who “believes” in the placebo, I completely skipped over that part.

              For a laboratory scientific experiment to prove something, anything at all, it has to pass a threshold known as sigma-5, which means that the margin or odds of error must be less than one part in around 3 million. There has to be a laboratory certainty of 99.99994%

              There are a million-plus-one ways that an attempted “controlled experiment” can go askew and wrong. In the case of the jars, my guess is that they packed the “unloved jar” more aggressively. That kitchen experiment is messier and more chaotic, uncontrolled, than a school lab, and a school lab doesn’t cut it even for a sigma-1 I would reckon, you’d get equally “useful” results by flipping a coin.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        110 months ago

        Well that’s an opinion I xan get behind, placebos are certainly more powerful than common sense would dictate.

        • @[email protected]OP
          link
          fedilink
          410 months ago

          They wrote mean words on one jar of rice, nice words on the other, and the one with mean words grew mold, illustrating that you should choose your words carefully. That was their intention at least.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            310 months ago

            I was trying to figure out if the kids had eaten more from one or the other jar. And I thought the green stuff was herbs.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      910 months ago

      Masaru Emoto’s “experiments” are not scientifically legit. They are at best artistic photography. But his so-called science in regard to water/ice crystals is rubbish and does not stand up to scrutiny, it is not reproducible. He makes a lot of money from common people at his events.

    • Lord Wiggle
      link
      fedilink
      910 months ago

      Once I saw some amazing effect after talking positively to water too. I came to the scientific conclusion the acid I took was really good.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    1110 months ago

    No mycelium on either one I see.

    Next time I recommend staying silent and paying attention to the moment as you make your cake

  • billwashere
    link
    fedilink
    English
    7610 months ago

    And this is how you fail in teaching your children science.

  • volvoxvsmarla
    link
    fedilink
    2110 months ago

    I think this is a wink towards the idea that your plants grow better when you talk lovey-dovey to them

    • The Menemen!
      link
      fedilink
      14
      edit-2
      10 months ago

      It is probably true though. Speaking to them every day, means looking at them every day and thus seeing problems immediately. Okay, so not true, but still effective.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        510 months ago

        I’m also open to the idea of doing research if sound waves stimulating something, somehow. At least there’s something to look at. But writing on a jar? That’s just nonsense.

        • volvoxvsmarla
          link
          fedilink
          610 months ago

          Absolutely. Everyone knows rice is illiterate, they should have taken barley

  • Eager Eagle
    link
    fedilink
    English
    28
    edit-2
    10 months ago

    All I can see is that this might be evidence that jars with green lids ate bad for storing food. Further studies are needed.

  • Buglefingers
    link
    fedilink
    310 months ago

    Should…shouldn’t the one with mold be the I love you one? Since that’s what promoted the most growth and success of life?