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: --
The reliability of experimental archaeology as an information source for use-wear analysis has been tested through multiple blind tests.
These sorts of tests are done with the component hidden from the listener, and are called blind tests.
Furthermore, concerns about flight safety from the authorities forced him to rebuild the engine, get approval for the additional fuel load, and undergo blind tests.
Those who favour the digital format point to the results of blind tests, which demonstrate the high performance possible with digital recorders.
Since multiple readings of the samples were closer than statistically expected for the non-double blind tests, the team argued that unintentional bias was the culprit.
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.
A separate blind testing corpus of 1.2 million words drawn from the same domain is used for benchmarking.
Belladonna and ipecac would be indistinguishable from each other in a blind test.
