A.B.
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My point is that if it takes that long for an opinion to be accepted it is clearly an opinion, not a fact. So those who seek to do due diligence and establish the consensus view may well not get to see that it might be crucial.
The psychotherapy field might have a different culture along the lines of "if you can't eliminate bias, demand that treatments have larger effect sizes than what could be explained by bias alone, and make sure the control group has a treatment of similar intensity and contact hours". I'm not getting the impression this is working particularly well for them though, presumably because bias related to subjective reporting can vary a lot. Better to eliminate it outright, but that might be expensive and difficult when it comes to psychological conditions. In ME/CFS it's not overly difficult to measure real world functioning semi-objectively with daily step counts, CPET, etc. In depression this is probably a more difficult problem, and in other psychological conditions even more so.
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