On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:13:29PM -0500, Henry Spencer wrote:

Placebo effect is powerful, and it's the reason why tests of things like new drugs absolutely must be done as "double-blind" tests: neither the patients nor the experimenters know which patients are getting the real pills and which are getting the dummies, until the experiment is over and the sealed envelopes are opened.

Those who died were given placebo, and those who got better were given real drug. Or, was it the other way around... :-) I've read it somewhere that the single most factor is the angle of wrist (ie. up and down angle). It should be straight. The angle of elbow or the side-to-side angle of wrist are less important. -- William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> Linux solution for data management and processing. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml