noun
- An experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment.
- usage: "a double-blind procedure is used to guard against both experimenter bias and placebo effects"
- synonyms: double-blind experiment, double-blind study
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