Posted by Bob on September 11, 1999, at 18:50:23
In reply to Re: shiatzu, posted by Noa on September 11, 1999, at 17:59:12
If you change more than one thing at the same time and get good results, no, there is no way of telling which one made the difference. Then again, who's to say that it wasn't that combination that made the difference ... that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts? If you want to test it out, here's what you have to do:
1. Take some baseline record of how you are without either action one or action 2.
2. Do action 1 alone. Give it a reasonable time to work. Keep records of any changes.
3. Stop action 1 and allow yourself to return to the baseline.
4. Start action 2. Give it as much time as action 1 and record any changes.
5. Stop action 2 and allow yourself to return to the baseline.
6. Start actions 1+2 together, give them the same amount of time to work, record changes.Not a very good model of how the real world works, is it? There are so many assumptions buried in that procedure--like that you'd return to the same baseline instead of some different point after dropping an action--that its crazier than I am! So much for positivist/empiricist science.
My advice is that if you've got a good job with benefits and one of those benefits includes a flexible spending account, then make sure that you deduct pre-tax the full $2000 allowed for medical expenses. The way it works, its like for every $100 of my pre-tax income, $70 goes to the account and $30 (untaxed) to me. I know mine covers acupuncture and I'd bet it covers massage therapy.
Cheers,
Bob
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