0 a scientific test in which either the people being tested or the person testing them, or both, do not know what is being tested
1 a test in which people are asked to try a product without knowing its name and then say how good or effective they think it is:
Sugiura found that laetrile inhibited secondary tumors in mice, without destroying the primary tumor, but in a blind test was unable to conclude that laetrile had anticancer activity.
Table 3 shows the results obtained in a blind test on 50 texts after training on 250.
The test was a blind test: participants were not allowed to change their systems once they received the questions, and the answers were required to be produced completely automatically.
It is a blind test: their handlers do not know where the mines are.
A further, relevant difference was the deletion of the blind test method, considered by most scholars as the very foundation of the scientific method.
Belladonna and ipecac would be indistinguishable from each other in a blind test.
A separate blind testing corpus of 1.2 million words drawn from the same domain is used for benchmarking.
Products are blind tested solely on their own merit (not compared), with the focus on the intensity of gustatory pleasures and the sensory analysis methodology.
