04-29-2010, 12:35 AM
If you are having responses that vivid, then perhaps you should continue using them all. We can call it an experiment. Who knows, you may just show me a thing or two. 
Not everyone responds the same, and my research isn't funded to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, so I try to be conservative with advice to ensure success, but if you are getting demonstrable effects, why not push the envelope and see what happens?
As for the placebo effect, I think a lot more is being made of it than is really reasonable. Placebo effect comes from the expectation that something will do something specific, and while it is something I have seen happen with regards to subliminals, it isn't something I see very often regarding my own because most people who use them are skeptical. They don't expect it to work; they're merely curious. Or, sometimes, they're actually expecting it to fail, or even antagonistic in their response to the idea that subliminals can work.
Honestly, I have seen more cases of placebo effect from people trying to resist the program out of belief that it would not/could not/should not work than I have had people see results because of placebo effect. And that is to say, in all the years I have been doing this, and all the reports I have had from people, I think I have seen two or three that I was reasonably sure were negative placebo effect (failure based on refusal to accept that subliminals could possibly work) and a couple more that struck me as being placebo effect from belief that they would work. Usually, placebo effect manifests in a too-rapid response (or at least, that was true back when I started; since my research into how to get results has advanced so far, I see people getting ridiculously fast results on a fairly regular basis now) or a response in which effects are experienced that simply cannot be explained by anything in the script or any stretch of the imagination for how it could have been taken in a way that would have produced the effect.
In a lot of cases, I see people getting results that I know can't be placebo effect because A) I only publish partial scripts, and B) they report specific results that are not revealed in the published scripts or descriptions, but are present in the script. I have also occasionally seen people fail to get results that are in the script sometimes while achieving other effects that are also present in the script. That's when you have resistance to specific statements.
My research isn't based on flawlessly double blind irrefutable clinical trials (yet) but when I am able to afford it it will be. I have no qualms about performing such research (which I estimate will cost at a bare minimum $50,000 per trial) because I am confident that I know what the results will be. As long as the trials and experiments are well designed, I believe they will conform to my research so far because I have performed a large number of experiments that taken as a whole, tell me these do in fact work as intended. I wouldn't have started selling them without that assurance. I also don't believe we as a company could have a hope of survival opening a public forum, if they didn't work. And in large part, I wanted to open this forum so that I could and would get more feedback, so that I could answer the nagging question, "What if people just aren't reporting their experiences enough?"
I have done (small sample) experiments in which a person is made aware that they may or may not be subject to subliminal audio, but not told what titles were options for exposing them to. I then observed them and their body language with and without the subliminal playing at random times and intervals, with and without telling them there was a subliminal playing. The results were very interesting and strongly suggestive of the fact that subliminals not only work, but work very differently than placebo effects usually manifest. I need to do them again in a controlled scientifically valid setup though, double blind, carefully planned, etc. which will be very difficult given some of the specific requirements of such a study. That's why I expect to spend $50,000 to around $250,000 on clinical trials, and perhaps even more, when I have the funding.
Now why on earth would I plan to spend that kind of money on something I wasn't confident in?
Not everyone responds the same, and my research isn't funded to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, so I try to be conservative with advice to ensure success, but if you are getting demonstrable effects, why not push the envelope and see what happens? As for the placebo effect, I think a lot more is being made of it than is really reasonable. Placebo effect comes from the expectation that something will do something specific, and while it is something I have seen happen with regards to subliminals, it isn't something I see very often regarding my own because most people who use them are skeptical. They don't expect it to work; they're merely curious. Or, sometimes, they're actually expecting it to fail, or even antagonistic in their response to the idea that subliminals can work.
Honestly, I have seen more cases of placebo effect from people trying to resist the program out of belief that it would not/could not/should not work than I have had people see results because of placebo effect. And that is to say, in all the years I have been doing this, and all the reports I have had from people, I think I have seen two or three that I was reasonably sure were negative placebo effect (failure based on refusal to accept that subliminals could possibly work) and a couple more that struck me as being placebo effect from belief that they would work. Usually, placebo effect manifests in a too-rapid response (or at least, that was true back when I started; since my research into how to get results has advanced so far, I see people getting ridiculously fast results on a fairly regular basis now) or a response in which effects are experienced that simply cannot be explained by anything in the script or any stretch of the imagination for how it could have been taken in a way that would have produced the effect.
In a lot of cases, I see people getting results that I know can't be placebo effect because A) I only publish partial scripts, and B) they report specific results that are not revealed in the published scripts or descriptions, but are present in the script. I have also occasionally seen people fail to get results that are in the script sometimes while achieving other effects that are also present in the script. That's when you have resistance to specific statements.
My research isn't based on flawlessly double blind irrefutable clinical trials (yet) but when I am able to afford it it will be. I have no qualms about performing such research (which I estimate will cost at a bare minimum $50,000 per trial) because I am confident that I know what the results will be. As long as the trials and experiments are well designed, I believe they will conform to my research so far because I have performed a large number of experiments that taken as a whole, tell me these do in fact work as intended. I wouldn't have started selling them without that assurance. I also don't believe we as a company could have a hope of survival opening a public forum, if they didn't work. And in large part, I wanted to open this forum so that I could and would get more feedback, so that I could answer the nagging question, "What if people just aren't reporting their experiences enough?"
I have done (small sample) experiments in which a person is made aware that they may or may not be subject to subliminal audio, but not told what titles were options for exposing them to. I then observed them and their body language with and without the subliminal playing at random times and intervals, with and without telling them there was a subliminal playing. The results were very interesting and strongly suggestive of the fact that subliminals not only work, but work very differently than placebo effects usually manifest. I need to do them again in a controlled scientifically valid setup though, double blind, carefully planned, etc. which will be very difficult given some of the specific requirements of such a study. That's why I expect to spend $50,000 to around $250,000 on clinical trials, and perhaps even more, when I have the funding.
Now why on earth would I plan to spend that kind of money on something I wasn't confident in?
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
