It is unlikely, therefore, that the formal violation of the double-blind principle may have biased the study outcome.
These patients were separated to an intervention group (Sheng-Mai-san) and a placebo group for 4 weeks using a randomized, double-blind principle.
Tests were carried out according to the double-blind principle; both test leader and handler were blinded to the location of the target samples, and were present in the test location only when the dogs were working.
A blinded principle was adopted to estimate the growth of bone postoperatively, with the observer and data processer blinded to the side groupings in each rabbit.
The studies were conducted by a single physician and were based on the blind sample principle.
What happened in 1927 was that Fuller, at the low point of his career, gave serious consideration to the idea of committing suicide and then rejected it in favor of what he has called "a blind date with principle".
The French Republic is, in principle, blind to ethnic origin, and so the Roma are classed as gens du voyage, travelling people, and are uniquely allowed to carry identity cards with no fixed residence.
The risk of bias at the outcome level was assessed on the basis of the adequacy of: application of the intention to treat principle; blinding of the outcome assessor; statistical evaluation; and complete and non-selective results reporting.
The human-designed algebras that form subsets of the space of all representations both for binary and multiple-valued systems are analogous to small "pools" of human principles, and by employing the blind evolutionary technique new principles may be discovered.
Principle without compromise is empty; compromise without principle is blind.
