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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a blind study" is not correct; the correct term is "a blind study" or "blind study." You can use it when referring to a research study in which participants do not know whether they are receiving the treatment or a placebo, to eliminate bias.
Example: "In order to ensure the validity of the results, we conducted a blind study where participants were unaware of their group assignments."
Alternatives: "blind trial" or "blind experiment."
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"Jumble them up and analyze them in a blind study to find out if it's true.
But a blind study in Australia that included people who believed the milk-mucus relationship found no difference in reports of mucus in the throat among those who ate chocolate-disguised cows' milk or soy milk.
The utility of a new instrument for rapid virus quantitation, the Virus Counter, was evaluated in a blind study conducted at three sites.
During a blind study the different samples of MCC were used separately and the resulting granules were evaluated in order to identify the differences between the six samples.
Dr. Griffin acknowledged in an interview how difficult it can be to design a scientifically valid study using animals because "it can't be a blind study — you know if the patient has a therapy dog".
This included employing research assistants from both sides who were fluent in Hebrew and Arabic and data entered remotely into a database at Yale, similar to a blind study.
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A double blind study with a larger sample is needed to ascertain these findings.
First of all, this was a single blind study because a double blind design was not feasible in our neurological ward.
It's a double blind study, so he doesn't know if it's a placebo.
With such small gains to begin with, positive results could disappear in a truly blind study.
Hine KR, Rao K, Bari A, Lim AG, Theodossi A. Famotidine in benign oesophageal stricture: a double blind study.
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