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What does double-blind mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word double-blind? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Describing an experiment (usually medical) in which the identity of those conducting the test(s) is kept secret from both the subjects and the administrators until the outcome of the experiment is known.
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Several recent double-blind trials have found that this herb has no advantage over placebo for treating colds.
The study was a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind crossover trial in healthy volunteers.
And it isn't clear how much of that research would meet the gold standard in clinical research, the controlled, randomised, double-blind trial.
The five-week trial was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study.
If a curative effect doesn't show up in double-blind tests, then you're mainly talking about the placebo effect, in any case.
I am only interested in proper double-blind tests, as I pointed out to you in our previous correspondence.

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