Single Blind Definition

siŋgəlblīnd
noun
A testing procedure in which the administrators do not tell the subjects if they are being given a test treatment or a control treatment in order to avoid bias in the results.
American Heritage Medicine
adjective
Designating or of a technique used to test objectively the effects of a drug, course of treatment, etc. in which the researchers but not the subjects know during the testing who is actually receiving the drug, treatment, etc.
Webster's New World

Describing an experiment (usually medical) in which the identity of those repeating different treatments is kept secret from the subjects, but not the administrators, until the outcome of the experiment is known.

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Single Blind Sentence Examples

  • There were good results, but the test was single-blind, not double-blind, which possibly, tho not necessarily, allows for bias.

  • In a single-blind trial, the doctors know which people receive the placebo.

  • A randomized, single-blind study over 6 months was performed at six specialist centers in Europe.

  • Manual acupuncture at traditional and sham points was applied to 20 healthy male students in a single-blind crossover design.

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