As I peruse my Intro to Stats online textbook, I cant help but pose whether or not any enterprising souls have tested the placebo effect vis a vis firearms. If people surveyed in the control group of a medical study claim theyve been healed when theyve factually not been , I wonder if the same effect would exist on a gun range.
Example experiment; two blued 1911s are used. Both are factory stock. The shooters are told one weapon contains modified internal parts such as a Wilson Combat extractor, slide stop, guide rod, etc. Theyre told the other is stock, and both are shot side by side with the shooters' subjective experience recorded at the end of a 3 magazine string of fire.
Has any such experiment been performed, and if so what were the results?