experimenter bias

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   (psychology) bias introduced by an experimenter whose expectations about the outcome of the experiment can be subtly communicated to the participants in the experiment

   Broaderbias

   psychology

Questions about experimenter bias

What does experimenter bias mean?

experimenter bias means "(psychology) bias introduced by an experimenter whose expectations about the outcome of the experiment can be subtly communicated to the participants in the experiment".

Is experimenter bias a common word?

experimenter bias 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.