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outcome vs placebo effect

placebo effect vs outcome

outcome and placebo effect both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
outcome Yes No No No
placebo effect Yes No No No
As nouns, placebo effect is a hyponym of outcome; that is, placebo effect is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than outcome:
  • outcome: a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
  • placebo effect: any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo; the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do; pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs
outcome (noun) placebo effect (noun)
something that results any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo; the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do; pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs
a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
Difference between outcome and placebo effect

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