The facts and nothing but the facts

At a recent workshop on blind analysis, researchers discussed how to keep their expectations out of their results. Scientific experiments are designed to determine facts about our world. But in complicated analyses, there's a risk that researchers will unintentionally skew their results to match what they were expecting to find. To reduce or eliminate this potential bias, scientists apply a method known as "blind analysis." Blind studies are probably best known from their use in clinical drug tr...