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Author Topic:   Double-blind Testing is Scientifically Invalid
Wounded King
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Message 11 of 16 (636524)
10-07-2011 7:51 AM
Reply to: Message 10 by Larni
10-07-2011 5:40 AM


You do know that double blinding refers to the experimenters being blind to the research hypothesis, don't you.
I think this is a pretty unusual interpretation of what double blinding means. Usually in a clinical context a double blind trial means that neither the experimenter nor the subject know if the subject is a control subject or an experimental subject.
I find it hard to see how anyone could give ethical consent to take part as an experimenter in a medical trial if they didn't know the hypothesis that was being tested, i.e. what the trial was for or what its purpose was.
TTFN,
WK
P.S. One caveat here is that there was a Cochrane review about 5 years ago that found about 15 different distinct usages of 'double blind' in a survey of researchers, and they almost all believed that their usage was the typical one.

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