DOUBLE-BLIND STUDY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does double-blind study mean? 

• DOUBLE-BLIND STUDY (noun)
  The noun DOUBLE-BLIND STUDY has 1 sense:

1. an experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment

  Familiarity information: DOUBLE-BLIND STUDY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOUBLE-BLIND STUDY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

double-blind experiment; double-blind procedure; double-blind study

Context example:

a double-blind procedure is used to guard against both experimenter bias and placebo effects

Hypernyms ("double-blind study" is a kind of...):

experimental procedure (the specific techniques used in conducting a particular experiment)

 Context examples 

A trial in which subjects and investigators know which product each subject is receiving; opposite of a blinded or double-blind study.

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