A human-made research protocol in which participants or investigators are kept unaware of which treatment group they belong to, eliminating expectancy bias from the evaluation process. Parameters: controlled procedure, concealed group assignment, single-blind (participant-level concealment) or double-blind (investigator-level concealment). Persistence mechanism: transmitted through scientific practice and methodological teaching. [formal: cecus | substrate: behavior | horizon: a moment | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.01]
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blind-test
A human-made research protocol in which participants or investigators are kept unaware of which treatment group they belong to, eliminating expectancy bias from the evaluation process. Parameters: controlled procedure, concealed group assi…
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Why it is in scope
A human-made research protocol — a controlled procedure in which participants or investigators are kept unaware of group assignments to eliminate expectancy bias from the evaluation process
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- blind-testen · CANONICAL
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Direction tested: blind-test IS a specific kind of experimental-design method. Per Law 9, a competent speaker calls a blind test a kind of experimental design. blind-test is newer and more specific than experimental-design (epoch 0.01 vs 0.38), fitting the specific→general direction.
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Direction tested: blind-test DEPENDS_ON blinding. Removal test: remove blinding and blind testing ceases to operate — the concept of blind testing IS the application of blinding to experimental procedures. Without the concept of blinding, there is no blind test. The dependency is constitutive.
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- Jul 22, 2026, 11:24 AM UTC
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