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Definition of "unblinding" [unblinding]

  • Present participle of unblind. (verb)

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Use "unblinding" in a sentence
  • "But if your study subjects are on the same social-networking group, what's to stop people from swapping enough information to figure out which of them is on the real medication vs. the placebo, essentially "unblinding" the study? ""
  • "Staff could be seen to enter rooms where placebo and real drugs were mixed, unblinding and invalidating entire studies sent to the FDA as data for new drug applications."
  • "John Lauritsen, an independent scholar, in "Poison by Prescription: The AZT Story," chronicles how scientific principles were compromised by the unblinding of the clinical trials of AZT."
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