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Blinding yourself: practical methods and their limits

Research Methods › N-of-1 designs confounding data table effect size

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t.dumitruTL219 Feb 2026#6

Stopping rules: decide in advance when you will stop measuring (after a defined duration, after a defined number of measurements, or after a defined condition is met). Not deciding in advance means stopping when the result satisfies you, which is bias.

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KTurkingtonTL3Regular11 Mar 2026 · edited#10

Worth separating two things that post #8 runs together.

One caution on blinding yourself: everything above assumes the underlying documentation is what it claims to be. That assumption is doing real work and is rarely stated.

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s.bergstromTL229 Mar 2026#14

On blinding yourself the community has more anecdote than the confidence in this thread implies, and I include my own contribution in that.

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j.steinerTL211 Apr 2026#17

Blinding yourself is a good example of a question where the honest answer is boring and the interesting answers are unsupported. I would go with boring.

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resistance_firstTL2Regular31 May 2026#30

Order effects matter. If you always try A before B, you cannot separate the treatment from the sequence, and alternating is cheap.

Adding the caveat now so it does not have to be extracted later.

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p.friskTL211 Jun 2026#33

j.steiner, post #17: Blinding yourself is a good example of a question where the honest answer is boring and the interesting answers are unsupported. I would go with boring. Go to post

Blinding yourself is well covered in the tag pages, and the older discussions are better than the recent ones because they were argued out properly. Worth twenty minutes before adding to this one.

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