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Originally Posted by extrashaky
No it's not. A placebo by definition is designed to have no measurable effect by itself, with any actual physical effect coming from suggestion rather than through physical means.
My exhaust is measurably louder and has an objectively different tone. Unlike a placebo, it's designed to have a physical effect on the driver's eardrums. The accompanying psychological effect comes through a direct physical manipulation. We're not imagining that difference in sound from a suggestion that it sounded different.
A placebo effect would arise from having someone replace your stock exhaust with another stock exhaust exactly like it and believing it made your car faster. We don't believe our cars are faster. We know they aren't. It can't be a placebo effect if we don't believe it's working.
Even if we did, it still wouldn't be placebo. It would be confirmation bias. But that's not happening here either.
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"Sound is an important factor in the way a car seems to respond. A great sounding car will feel faster" Right here. That, "...feel faster...", that's all placebo.Sounds also has nothing to do with the way the car responds. Again, placebo.