Dogs trained to detect Parkinson’s disease using scent have shown remarkable accuracy in new research. In a double-blind trial, they identified skin swabs from people with Parkinson’s with up to 80% ...

The double blind method is an important part of the scientific method, used to prevent research outcomes from being 'influenced' by the placebo effect or observer bias. Blinded research is an ...

Strategies such as the double-blind password strategy can be effective, but only if end-users are fully adopting the practice. Learn more about when and how to use it.

It adds that double-blind peer review “has the potential to reduce bias with respect to gender, race, country of origin or affiliation which should lead to a more equitable system”. Double-blind will ...

Summary and Conclusions A double-blind study to determine the effectiveness of injection therapy in seasonal rhinitis caused by ragweed pollen was conducted during the summer of 1963.

Instead of the traditional single-blind method, in which reviewers are anonymous but know the authors' identity, authors will be able to choose double-blind peer review, in which both authors and ...

Starting in March, Nature Biotechnology will experiment with an alternative to its existing method of peer review. Instead of the traditional single-blind method, in which reviewers are anonymous ...

Amid recent scandals, Alva Noë considers an essay on the role of cognitive bias in science — and how methods of research in one field, like physics's data blind study, could be replicated in ...

The American Economic Association announced last week that it is ending "double blind" peer review, the traditional system in the social sciences in which authors of submitted articles are not known ...

Methods In this double-blind trial, we randomly assigned patients with intermediate-2 or high-risk myelofibrosis to twice-daily oral ruxolitinib (155 patients) or placebo (154 patients).

Also unprecedented was the methodology for many of the trials: They were the first to employ the double-blind method, in which children were randomly assigned to receive either placebos or a ...

Moreover, the S-cycle adopted a double-blind, double-dummy method. Since the study drug vials of FosNTP and FosAPR were distinguishable by appearance, unblinded pharmacists prepared the study drugs, ...