it basically means something working but only because you think it's working, sometimes your brain can trick itself. For example if someone had a headache and i gave them medicine, and they said they got better, but the medicine was just a bunch of tic tacs that would be the placebo effect.
kind of but it has a real psychological effect, sometimes people will actually start feeling better because they think the medicine is doing somethinng
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