Stiffer springs...pull harder
6th Gear
Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 10,684
From: Columbs, Ohio
RE: Stiffer springs...pull harder
I just mean, when you upgrade the suspension it makes such a dramatic change in the characteristics of the car your mind is tricked into thinking it is pulling harder. It's not possible for it to be really pulling any harder.
3rd Gear
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 1,853
From: United States
RE: Stiffer springs...pull harder
yeah plecebo is the term they use to describe the "sugar pills" in drug trials half people get real drug half get plecebo fake drug they do this to rule out the mental aspect of taking a drug... the plecebo effect is when the person with the sugar pill actualy feels some kind of effect.
4th Gear
Joined: Jul 2004
Posts: 4,354
RE: Stiffer springs...pull harder
Pretty good explaination. I actually work in the pharma industry designing drug trials.
In many businesses like the audio industry "placebo" effect sells a lot of things, including 1000 dollar power cables, etc. In auto, lots of the "miraculous" improvements in engine smoothness, "feeling of power", etc after using various engine products are "placebo effect". When you do something to your car, you spend the next days/weeks checking for a difference. Because the product said it would make characteristic X better, you spend time checking if you can feel the difference.
In addition, there is a personal bias. Subconciously, no one wants to admit they were an idiot for spending money on fuel magnets to "align fuel molecules" to burn better and give faster acceleration. We always want to demonstrate to ourselves that whatever we did, it made some improvement, even if it can't be measured.
That is why you can't trust "personal testimonies" as proof that a product works.
I have to stop writing 'cause I have to go order some ATHENA 10X, so women will come on to me, just like the ad says they will.
In many businesses like the audio industry "placebo" effect sells a lot of things, including 1000 dollar power cables, etc. In auto, lots of the "miraculous" improvements in engine smoothness, "feeling of power", etc after using various engine products are "placebo effect". When you do something to your car, you spend the next days/weeks checking for a difference. Because the product said it would make characteristic X better, you spend time checking if you can feel the difference.
In addition, there is a personal bias. Subconciously, no one wants to admit they were an idiot for spending money on fuel magnets to "align fuel molecules" to burn better and give faster acceleration. We always want to demonstrate to ourselves that whatever we did, it made some improvement, even if it can't be measured.
That is why you can't trust "personal testimonies" as proof that a product works.
I have to stop writing 'cause I have to go order some ATHENA 10X, so women will come on to me, just like the ad says they will.
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Joined: May 2003
Posts: 3,927
From: Indianapolis, IN
RE: Stiffer springs...pull harder
Well, there is something of an difference when accelerating from a stop - you don't get the suspension cushion (mainly on the non-sport) that happens when you hit the gas. Instead you just start to move.