noun · academic
blinding
/ˈblaɪndɪŋ/BLIND·ing
the practice of keeping participants, investigators, or assessors unaware of treatment allocation to prevent bias
Examples
“The trial used double blinding so neither patients nor doctors knew who received the drug.”
“Blinding reduces assessor bias when measuring subjective outcomes.”
“Single blinding may be insufficient if researchers unconsciously influence participants.”
Band 8 sentence
“To minimise bias the randomized trial incorporated double blinding and independent outcome assessment.”
Collocations
- double blinding
- single blinding
- implement blinding
Word family
Common mistakes
The study was blinded, so people didn't know.→The study was double-blind, so neither participants nor researchers knew.
They blind the results to prevent bias.→They used blinding to prevent bias.
Say it for a higher band
5hide who gets treatment→6masking→7+blinding
Synonyms
masking
Easily confused
masking
“Masking was applied to ensure assessors were unaware of treatment allocation.”
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