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单词 double-blind
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double-blindadj.

Forms: Also doubleblind.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: double adj.1, blind adj.
Etymology: < double adj.1 + blind adj., after blind test at blind adj. 9c.
a. Applied to a test or experiment conducted by one person on another in which information about the test that may lead to bias in the results is concealed from both the tester and the subject until after the test is made; originally used of tests for determining the efficacy of drugs. Quots. 1937, 1948 both refer to a double-blind test.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > [adjective] > specific tests
fiery1568
double-blind1950
blind1962
single-blind1963
beta test1978
randomized1978
1937 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 26 June 2178/2 The data consisted of the patients' judgments regarding changes in pain. These data were secured in a manner relatively free of bias by the use of the ‘blind test’.
1948 Amer. Heart Jrnl. 36 529 The study was conducted by the ‘blind’ method. The materials for injection..were unknown to the observer as well as to the subject.]
1950 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 9 146/1 The ‘internal-evaluation’ was made by skilled questioning under conditions of the ‘double blind test’ in which neither the physician nor the patient knew at the time whether the evaluation related to the placebo or khellin.
1954 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 47 197 The only safe way to obtain unbiased opinions from either of them [sc. doctor or patient] is to make them express their opinions without knowing whether the patient received an active drug or not. This is known in America as a double blind test.
1961 Lancet 19 Aug. 423/1 Statistics and certain concepts, such as double-blind trials, are on everyone's mind to-day.
1968 Times 4 Oct. 9/1 A double-blind guessing experiment..is interpreted by its authors to provide evidence for extra-sensory perception (E.S.P.). E.S.P., which covers such terms as telepathy and precognition, is the alleged faculty of perception by means which do not depend on the known sense organs.
1970 Sci. Amer. Mar. 62/3 To demonstrate that no cheating was involved, the experiment was repeated on a double-blind basis: neither the investigator nor the subject knew what the dot pattern contained in advance.
1971 Nature 12 Mar. 113/2 It should be noted that this study was not double blind and hence is subject to observer bias.
b. elliptical or as n.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > [noun] > specific tests or testing > where information hidden from tester or subject
double-blind1960
blind test1962
1960 J. R. Wilson Double Blind i. 12 In an ordinary blind trial the patient does not know which substance he is receiving... There may be reasons why this information is better withheld even from the doctor himself. This is known as a double blind.
1960 N.Y. Times 14 Aug. 77/3 After the first few cases of improvement with griseofulvin therapy were noted, a research method known as the ‘double blind’ was used.
1961 Spectator 3 Feb. 165/1 The well designed trial avoids this unconscious conspiracy by a system known as the double-blind.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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