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Placebo button

A placebo button is a push-button or other control that appears to have functionality but has no effect when pressed. Such buttons can appear to work, by lighting up or otherwise reacting, which rewards the user by giving them an illusion of control. They are commonly placed in situations where it would have once been useful to have such a button but the…

Office thermostats, London Underground train door buttons & Walk buttons

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Office thermostats

Walk buttons

London Underground train door buttons

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Placebo button

Nodes24
Edges23
Triples8
Avg. degree1.92
Density0.083333
Components1

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Placebo button

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related to Walk buttons · 7
Placebo button → Hong Kong, In, Many, New York City, Split Cycle Offset Optimisation, Technique, United Kingdom
is a · 1
Placebo button → push-button or other control that appears to have functionality but has no effect when pressed

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Important terminology

placebo control thermostats thermostat effect buttons temperature set may work office central controller's change button point actual classical conditioning experience

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Placebo buttonis apush-button or other control that appears to have functionality but has no effect when pressed0.90text
Placebo buttonrelated to Walk buttonsMany0.60section
Placebo buttonrelated to Walk buttonsNew York City0.60section
Placebo buttonrelated to Walk buttonsIn0.60section
Placebo buttonrelated to Walk buttonsUnited Kingdom0.60section
Placebo buttonrelated to Walk buttonsHong Kong0.60section
Placebo buttonrelated to Walk buttonsSplit Cycle Offset Optimisation0.60section
Placebo buttonrelated to Walk buttonsTechnique0.60section

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