Rikei ga Koi ni Ochita no de Shoumei shitemita - Vol. 18 Ch. 92 - Science Fell In Love And Visited A Shrine On New Year's

[MangaDex]

 

[Bachenaugen]

Bro really just said "God is cringe..." in front of everyone.

 

[talas]

I hate it when they do pseudo-science stuff like this. I understand the author is trying to be funny, but it's just cringe.

 

[Backto2122]

I hate it when they do pseudo-science stuff like this. I understand the author is trying to be funny, but it's just cringe.

It's not pseudo science. God's existence has neither been proven nor disproven. And proving either is basically impossible (this problem is what the chapter is about).
The thing at the end about how believing in god's protection making it more likely to recognize good luck is called the placebo effect. This effect is called the placebo effect and has been proven and needs to be accounted for in any modern clinical trial.

 

[Hounder]

I hate it when they do pseudo-science stuff like this. I understand the author is trying to be funny, but it's just cringe.

They are being very accurate here actually, especially on the psychology involving fortune. The power of belief is something that can't be underestimated.

 

[Funky_Cosmonaut]

I know they were talking about the placebo effect, but their argument borders om "Pascal's Wager"

 

[talas]

It's not pseudo science. God's existence has neither been proven nor disproven. And proving either is basically impossible (this problem is what the chapter is about).
The thing at the end about how believing in god's protection making it more likely to recognize good luck is called the placebo effect. This effect is called the placebo effect and has been proven and needs to be accounted for in any modern clinical trial.

Then why don't scientists do that for every single experiment? It's better to assume that god and luck don't exist and be done with it. I mean, how do you even replicate something like luck in an experiment if it was just "luck"?
Besides that, Some studies point out that the placebo effect doesn't even exist. How do you relate that to this chapter? It sounds like a case of an author just doing whatever their audience wants to read to keep selling and that's okay, but don't call it scientific.
And it's not the first time, I can pass extremely dense main characters or someone kicking a falling light in the air without any leverage as a funny gag, but this is too much in a supposedly "scientific" story.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6707261/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/study-finds-placebo-effec/

 

[Backto2122]

Then why don't scientists do that for every single experiment? It's better to assume that god and luck don't exist and be done with it

God just doesn't really matter for most experiments, so we don't need to account for his existence.
As for luck it generally gets compensated with large sample sizes.

Besides that, Some studies point out that the placebo effect doesn't even exist. How do you relate that to this chapter?

As for the first article you reference (I only read the abstract). It seems to be mostly about how the placebo effect is overrated and that a drug should do more than just barely beating the "placebo effect".
It also says: "The fact is people heal and that inherent healing capacity is both powerful and influenced by mental, social, and contextual factors that are embedded in every medical encounter since the idea of treatment began". Which clearly would include an encounter with a placebo pill.

As for the second article (here a link to the original article it was presumably based on https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200105243442106)
It does say it is insignificant for most studies, but with an exception for subjective effects, like on pain.

As for how the chapter handles it I think it does quite well. I think it makes it clear enough that it doesn't actually improve your luck it just makes you perceive your "luck" more.