double-blind
adjective
dou·ble-blind
ˌdə-bəl-ˈblīnd 
: of, relating to, or being an experimental procedure in which neither the subjects nor the experimenters know which subjects are in the test and control groups during the actual course of the experiments compare open-label, single-blind
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Rigorous research that informed the California ban, including double-blind studies that control for variations in children’s diets, has found an association between various artificial color additives and hyperactivity.
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Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 15 Jan. 2025
The efficacy and safety of ginger (Zingiber officinale) rhizome extract in outpatients with COVID-19: A randomized double-blind placebo-control clinical trial.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
And no amount of randomized, double-blind trials can prove the ultimate importance of love, compassion, and forgiveness.
—Arianna Huffington, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024
The company’s website also mentions a clinical trial on human subjects that involved a double-blind trial with 30 participants in which healthy adults were given either AG1 or a placebo for one month.
—Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 19 Nov. 2024
The officiant describes Love Is Blind as the most important double-blind experiment for these two scientists.
—Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
In double-blind lab tests, two canines proved able to correctly pick out the scent of children infected with malaria parasites 70 percent of the time.
—Megan Molteni, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2018
In a subsequent double-blind study, one group of pregnant women were given choline supplements and the other placebos.
—Daliah Singer, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
The new double-blind Canadian study of doxyPrEP enrolled 52 gay and bisexual men and evenly randomized them to receive doxycycline or a placebo.
—Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 18 July 2024
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Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 15 Jan. 2025
The efficacy and safety of ginger (Zingiber officinale) rhizome extract in outpatients with COVID-19: A randomized double-blind placebo-control clinical trial.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
And no amount of randomized, double-blind trials can prove the ultimate importance of love, compassion, and forgiveness.
—Arianna Huffington, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024
The company’s website also mentions a clinical trial on human subjects that involved a double-blind trial with 30 participants in which healthy adults were given either AG1 or a placebo for one month.
—Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 19 Nov. 2024
The officiant describes Love Is Blind as the most important double-blind experiment for these two scientists.
—Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
In double-blind lab tests, two canines proved able to correctly pick out the scent of children infected with malaria parasites 70 percent of the time.
—Megan Molteni, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2018
In a subsequent double-blind study, one group of pregnant women were given choline supplements and the other placebos.
—Daliah Singer, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
The new double-blind Canadian study of doxyPrEP enrolled 52 gay and bisexual men and evenly randomized them to receive doxycycline or a placebo.
—Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 18 July 2024
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double-blind
adjective
dou·ble-blind
ˌdəb-əl-ˈblīnd
: of, relating to, or being an experimental procedure in which neither the subjects nor the experimenters know which subjects are in the test and control groups during the actual course of the experiments compare open-label, single-blind
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