Question

Determine whether the experiment is blind or double blind.Is the aspirin produced by World's Best Pharmaceutical Company better than that of a competitor at relieving headaches? 200 headache suffers are chosen at random. Migraned Testing Service administers the experiment and provides the results evaluation. Three levels are made: participants receive contents from Bottle A, Bottle B, or Bottle C. Other than the fact that one bottle contains placebo aspirin (but not which particular bottle contains placebo aspirin), no other information is given to the testing service regarding the bottles' contents.a. Blindb. Double blindc. Neither

Answer 1

The correct answer is:

Double-blind (b)

Explanation:

A blind/blinded experiment is one in which information which may influence the participant or experimenter is withheld throughout the process of the experiment either by masking (giving false identity) or completely blinded, to avoid biases that may arise from such knowledge by the participant or experimenter.

Blinding is of three types: single-blind, double-blind and triple-blind experiements and this is named with respect to three categories involved in the experiment; participant, researcher or a third party, which may include: analysts, monitoring committees stakeholders etc. The blinding type is explained as follows

Blinding Type participant researcher Third-party

single-blind blinded unblinded unblinded

double-blind blinded blinded unblinded

triple-blind blinded blinded blinded

In this example, the 200 headache sufferers (participants) and the Migrane testing service (researchers) do not know the contents of the bottles being administered, whereas the pharmaceutical company (third-party knows), hence it is a double-blinded experiment.