double-blind study

1. 1.

   an experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment

   “a double-blind procedure is used to guard against both experimenter bias and placebo effects”

   Synonymsdouble-blind proceduredouble-blind experiment

   Broaderexperimental procedure

Questions about double-blind study

What does double-blind study mean?

double-blind study means "an experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment".

What is another word for double-blind study?

Close synonyms include double-blind procedure, double-blind experiment. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is double-blind study a common word?

double-blind study is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.