Timeline for Word to describe quality of being a blind study
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| Jun 7, 2011 at 17:17 | comment | added | Lotus Notes | Thanks for going out of your way to give an excellent answer! | |
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| Jun 7, 2011 at 1:30 | history | edited | Kit Z. Fox♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 6, 2011 at 20:04 | comment | added | Kit Z. Fox♦ | @Lotus Notes @The Raven I asked my former boss, and he confirms that it is accurate to say "blinded participant" or "blinded experimenter" provided that the context is clear. He also mentions that "unblinded" could either mean that the data manager has known since the beginning of the experiment, or that the data manager was informed after the experiment was completed (provided that proper coding/decoding techniques were used). I'll amend my answer tonight when I have more time. | |
| Jun 6, 2011 at 19:12 | comment | added | The Raven | I work with this terminology and frequently see "blinded" as in, "the study was properly blinded," or "similar results were obtained in the double-blinded trial." I've never seen "blindedness," probably because the state of a study being blind is binary - yes it is, or no it isn't. | |
| Jun 6, 2011 at 19:00 | comment | added | Kit Z. Fox♦ | @Lotus Notes It sounds odd to me, but that's probably because if you know that it's a double-blind study, then you would also know that the nurse would be "blind" and that the data manager would not be. Let me ask around a bit and see if I can get you a better answer. | |
| Jun 6, 2011 at 18:49 | comment | added | Lotus Notes | The example given by my boss was that the nurse giving the injections to the subject would be a "blind user" and that the data manager who oversees the randomization process between arms would be an "unblinded user". So "user" in this case is not necessarily a subject in the experiment. However, my boss is not a native English speaker so I am not sure if his terminology is correct. | |
| Jun 6, 2011 at 18:44 | comment | added | aedia λ | "Blind" and "masked" are treated as synonymous by Clinicaltrials.gov, though I think I've seen "blind" more. I do not recall ever seeing "blindedness" or "blindness" in this context, and I agree that the trial is described as blind rather than the participants. We create constructions like "participants in the experimental arm of the study" instead. | |
| Jun 6, 2011 at 18:32 | history | answered | Kit Z. Fox♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |