single-blind

[ sing-guhl-blahynd ]

adjective

1. of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which the researchers but not the subjects know which subjects are receiving the active medication or treatment and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias, as the placebo effect, from the test results.

single-blind

adjective

1. of or relating to an experiment, esp one to discover people's reactions to certain commodities, drugs, etc, in which the experimenters but not the subjects know the particulars of the test items during the experiment Compare double-blind

Word History and Origins

Origin of single-blind¹

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

In a single-blind field test at the Berkeley Lab with a real cesium radiation source, led by Vavrek, where the researchers at MIT did not know the ground-truth source location, a test device was performed with high accuracy in finding the direction and distance to the source.

From Science Daily

For many journals, including Nature, peer review has typically been single-blind — that is, authors do not know who is reviewing their paper.

From Nature

For example, she says, double-blind reviews are relatively common in the humanities and social sciences, whereas single-blind reviews are more common in the natural sciences, so researchers in these fields already have some sense of what to expect.

From Nature

Currently, grant proposals include the name of the applicant, but the reviewers remain anonymous — a method known as single-blind review.

From Nature

Currently grant proposals include the name of the applicant, but the reviewers remain anonymous — a method known as single-blind review, which is used by many funding agencies.

From Nature