double-blind

• “Experimenters often use what is called a double-blind procedure to assure the validity of their data.”

  Simon & Schuster: INSIDE OF A DOG

• “If neither the women participating in the study nor the health professionals working with them know which group each woman is in, the study is called double-blind.”

  Simon & Schuster: Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause

• “The mistake rate, however, fell to 12 per cent in the so-called "double-blind sequential" line-ups.”

  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed

• “Complicating the issue is the fact that many believe a gold-standard study would be unethical: How could you carry out what’s called a double-blind study of a large group of children—randomly assigning half to be immunized and half not, leaving the second group of kids vulnerable to serious and often deadly diseases?”

  Simon & Schuster: You Raising Your Child

• “It was a double-blind mall intercept with a total of 440 interviews using open - and closed-ended questions, including “Did the commercial say, show, or imply anything about any unique feature of the advertised dryer?””

  Archive 2009-10-01

• “For in this country, it is unlikely that the popular obsession with empirical, double-blind, better living through chemistry, underwriters laboratory tested, government inspected, grade "A" ways of embracing reality will be fading away anytime soon.”

  The Huffington Post: Vaishali: The Voodoos and Don'ts of American Culture

• “Although several open-label trials on gene therapy have shown promise in treating neurologic disease, the researchers noted that this is the first of its type to be confirmed in a follow-up randomized double-blind trial, a study in which neither the investigators nor the patients knew which patients were receiving the real or sham treatment.”

  USA Today: Gene therapy may help reverse Parkinson's symptoms

• “In a randomized, double-blind controlled study of 297 patients at 30 sites, those treated with the Alair device had a 32% reduction in asthma attacks, an 84% reduction in emergency-room visits and a 66% reduction in school or work days lost due to asthma.”

  The Wall Street Journal: New Surgery to Treat Asthma

• “Homeopathic individualized Q-potencies versus fluoxetine for moderate to severe depression: double-blind, randomized non-inferiority trial.”

  The Huffington Post: Dana Ullman: Homeopathy: A Healthier Way to Treat Depression?

• “This study included 91 outpatients with moderate to severe depression who received an individually chosen homeopathic medicine or fluoxetine (Prozac) 20 mg/day (up to 40 mg/day) in a prospective, randomized, double-blind double-dummy eight week trial.”

  The Huffington Post: Dana Ullman: Homeopathy: A Healthier Way to Treat Depression?

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