randy-11 wrote,
"Blind testing removes confirmation bias.
If you don’t understand that, then you are doomed to live with a tin-foil hat on your head."
Wow! If you’re worried about confirmation bias you’re in a world of hurt.
But what I’m really driving at is that if a blind test results are negative what can you conclude? Nothing. Any test blind test or otherwise is just a data point. There are many reasons why a test might have negative results. So, that’s why you actually can’t point to blinds tests as proving something doesn’t work. Conversely if a blind test's results are positive then we can say, hey, this thing might have a shot! Follow?
"Blind testing removes confirmation bias.
If you don’t understand that, then you are doomed to live with a tin-foil hat on your head."
Wow! If you’re worried about confirmation bias you’re in a world of hurt.
But what I’m really driving at is that if a blind test results are negative what can you conclude? Nothing. Any test blind test or otherwise is just a data point. There are many reasons why a test might have negative results. So, that’s why you actually can’t point to blinds tests as proving something doesn’t work. Conversely if a blind test's results are positive then we can say, hey, this thing might have a shot! Follow?