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Taka Posted 21 years ago
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00 Human imagination is such that some of the people receiving the pills will be affected one way or the other by the very fact that something is being done to them. 11b10 No, 12b10 the competent experimenter is now trained to give vitamin tablets, or whatever it is he may be testing, to one group of the people, and dummy tablets to another exactly comparable group. The dummy pills ore commonly termed "placebos." 12blockquote
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00How should I interpret the 'No' above? 0-
  

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0 Are you sure that the word is "No" and not "So"? 0-

— Temico

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0 Are you sure that the word is "No" and not "So"? 0-
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0 Yes, it's 'No'. If it were 'so', I wouldn't be confused at all... 0-
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0 I read over and over again, and now I come to think that the original itself is a typo; it should have been 'so'--actually, I first thought that way. 02br
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00Thank you anyway, temico! 0-
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00It might very well be a typo for 'so', although if I were writing it, I might have preceded the 'so' with a comma. 02br
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00Anyway, 'no' is not totally impossible in theory. Sometimes a writer may state one side of an issue or pose a rhetorical question, and then answer with a 'no', followed by an explanation. 02br
00'Is this war justif
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0 Or 'Now'; though the 'now' that follows makes that slightly less likely. 02br
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0 Clive. 02br
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00 So if we had a little more of the context that preceded these sentences, 'no' might in theory be OK. 12blockquote
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00The paragraph has this pragraph in front: 02br
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00 When a research worker sets out systematically to discover whether vitamin tablets, let u
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00When a research worker sets out systematically to discover whether vitamin tablets, let us say, prevent your catching cold, it is no good his giving them to a group of people throughout the winter and asking them at the end whether they've had fewer colds than during the year before. Neither is it enough to give vitamins to half the people in a larger group and compare
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0 Taka, 02br
00Can you please tell me how to put text in one of these 'blue boxes'? I can see that I need to upgrade my level of technology. 02br
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00Clive 0-
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0 Clive 02br
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00Please write this way; 01blockquote
00 blah blah blah 12blockquote
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00Actually you have to change [X] and [/X] into 00 and 00. 02br
00Then you'll get; 01blockquote
00 blah blah blah 12blockquote
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00You
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00 In simplified form, he says "This is no good... Neither is this...No, what is good is this...He sets up a chain of repeated negatives. 12blockquote
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00If this part were not there 02br
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00 Human imagination is such that some of the people receiving the pills will be affected o
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