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| Domain | Definition |
Health | Pertaining to a clinical trial or other experiment in which neither the subject nor the person administering treatment knows which treatment any particular subject is receiving. (references) |
Medicine | A type of clinical trial in which neither the subject nor the investigator knows what treatment, if any, the subject is receiving. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Double-blind describes an especially stringent way of conducting an experiment on living, conscious subjects, in particular humans. A blind experiment is designed so that individuals do not know whether they are so-called "test" subjects or members of an "experimental control" group. In a double-blind experiment, the researchers as well do not know to which group the individuals belong or which treatment they are receiving. Only after all the data is recorded and in some cases analyzed may researchers be permitted to learn which individuals are which. Performing an experiment in double-blind fashion is a way to lessen the influence of prejudices on the results.
Strictly speaking, every researcher who interacts with or treats a subject should be blinded, if an experiment is to be designated "double-blind." This situation is easily arranged when the treatment being tested is a drug, the appearance of which may be simulated with a colored pill or solution. But with surgerical procedures, for example, a surgeon inevitably knows whether it is the procedure or a sham that he or she is performing. The evaluation of such procedures can be approximately double-blind; if the researchers responsible for recording subjects' responses and analyzing the data are blinded. Such a test typically is not considered "double-blind."
See also: Randomized controlled trial
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Double-blind."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Experiment | Protocol, experimental method, blind experiment, double-blind experiment, controlled experiment. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DOUBLE-BLIND |
| English words defined with "DOUBLE-BLIND": double-blind experiment, double-blind procedure, double-blind study. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Consequently, double-blind food challenges are done infrequently. (references) | |
Many phase III trials are called double-blind, randomized clinical trials. (references) | ||
The final method used to objectively diagnose food allergy is double-blind food challenge. (references) | ||
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| "DOUBLE-BLIND" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DOUBLE-BLIND" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 34 | 59,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "DOUBLE-BLIND": Double-Blind Method. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "DOUBLE-BLIND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | dobbeltblindet undersøgelse (double-blind study, double-blinding), dobbeltblind undersøgelse (double-blind study, double-blinding). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | dubbel-blind-onderzoek (double-blind study, double-blinding). (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | kaksoissokkokoe (double-blind study, double-blinding). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | double aveugle (double-blind study, double-blinding). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Doppelblindstudie (blinding, double-blind study, double-blinding). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | διπλά τυφλό (double-blind study, double-blinding). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | studio in doppio cieco (double-blind study, double-blinding). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ouble-blindday estudio doble ciego (double-blind study, double-blinding), estudio de doble ciego (double-blind study, double-blinding), estudio a doble ciego (double-blind study, double-blinding), ensayo doble ciego (double-blind study, double-blinding), ensayo a doble ciego (double-blind study, double-blinding). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"DOUBLE-BLIND" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: doublebind. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-d-d-e-i-l-l-n-o-u" | |
-3 letters: unbilled, unbodied, unilobed. | |
-4 letters: bedouin, bilobed, blinded, bounded, builded, bullied, bullion, bundled, dibbled, dollied, doubled, lobbied, nibbled, nobbled, unlobed, unoiled. | |
-5 letters: beduin, bidden, billed, billon, bindle, blonde, bodied, boiled, bolide, bolled, bonded, boulle, buboed, buddle, bulbed, bulbel, bulbil, bulled, bundle, dibbed, dibble, dildoe, dilled, dindle, dobbin, doiled, dolled, double, dubbed, dubbin, duelli, duello. | |
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