"blind preference" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to describe something that is chosen without considering any relevant factors. For example, "Making decisions based on a blind preference often leads to unsatisfactory results".
Federal and state legislation gives the blind preference in operating these businesses in government buildings.
The operators, Greg and Mary Maher, a married couple who have had the Old Greenwich stand for some years, were told in December that they had to leave after Adam Fairbanks, a 23-year-old Greenwich man who is blind, invoked laws giving the blind preference at running government-owned concessions.
Studies reveal that when people are asked to do a blind taste test of Coke versus Pepsi they split equally, showing little measurable preference.
P. Read Montague, a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, has demonstrated that subjects' brains register a preference for Coke or Pepsi that correlates with the product they choose in blind taste tests.
Montague and colleagues found that, both in blind taste tests and in fMRI scans of a brain region associated with taste, subjects were evenly divided in their preference for the two brands.
As outcomes were all reported by participants who were not blinded, their preferences and expectations might have exaggerated the magnitude of the positive outcomes.
The first questionnaire, focused on a hypothetical comparison between a new drug and a standard drug for pelvic pain associated with endometriosis (Fig. 1), and included five different mutually exclusive preferences, i.e., standard drug, new drug, RCT with allocation blinding, RCT without blinding, and patient preference trial.
Marion Nestle writes in her book Food Politics that eighth-grade students who stated their preferences for brand-name sodas over generic sodas were unable to identify those "favorites" during a brand-blind taste test, often choosing the generic brand instead.
Because of a 1936 federal law that gives preference to blind vendors in government buildings, the State Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped was technically in charge of the coffee.
These include patient and surgeon preferences, inability to blind surgeons and difficulties blinding patients, difficulties in obtaining adequate sample sizes, and a lack of standardisation of surgical procedures.
