Blind analysis: Hide results to seek the truth

Nature

Volumn 526, Issue 7572, 2015, Pages 187-189

  MacCoun, Robert ^a   Perlmutter, Saul ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; BLIND ANALYSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONFIRMATION BIAS; CRITICAL THINKING; DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; LABORATORY; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; NOTE; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; BIOMEDICINE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; PERSONNEL; PREJUDICE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIOLOGY; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL BIAS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTIVATION; PHYSICS; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84944042832     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/526187a     Document Type: Note

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