Or maybe a treatment will have "a placebo effect, " meaning it will make you feel better just because you have confidence it will make you feel better.

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Throughout every permutation that I ran, the tuition variable had a statistically significant and negative effect on partying, meaning that as students pay more in tuition, they are less apt to go out and party.

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Pulsars are often ejected from a supernova at high velocity, meaning, in effect, that they have had a huge sideways kick.

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