Concept

Blinded experiment

Overview

experiment in which information about the test is masked to reduce bias

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Blinded experiment

• Charles Sanders Peirce

Related ideas

• Evidence-based medicine
• Placebo
• False dilemma
• Scientific method
• Age of Enlightenment
• Bias
• Experiment
• Friedrich Schiller
• Hierarchy of evidence
• Observer bias

Place in the tradition

Part of Philosophy of science.

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