Then there's this randomised double
blind study which fed sleep deprived volunteers either 3 grams of glycine before bed or a placebo.
Not exact matches
When the
study sent out
blind résumés (résumés with no indication of gender), fewer women were hired than when names (
which generally indicate gender) were included.
Additionally, this is not a
blind study (forget double
blind)-- that is the people collecting the data knew
which person gave
which answers.
A 2001 double -
blind study at the Mayo Clinic randomized 799 discharged coronary surgery patients into a control group and an intercessory prayer group,
which received prayers at least once a week from 5 intercessors per patient.
No statistically valid, double -
blind study has ever shown prayer to affect anything but heart rate,
which is a meditative effect.
In the first
study, an eight - week double -
blind trial, the participants who took the active ingredient versus the placebo lost 21 pounds, 17 of
which was body fat.
Another more recent
study assessed the efficiency of collagen peptides in a randomized, double
blind, controlled multicenter trial, in
which 250 subjects with primary osteoarthritis of the knee were given 10g of collagen peptides daily.
(Los Angeles, CA October 3, 2014)-- A 2014 third - party, double -
blind, crossover
study at the University of Tampa, has shown that leucine, the key amino acid to activate muscle building, was absorbed faster from Oryzatein ® rice protein than leucine from whey protein,
which can be of superior benefit in the sports nutrition industry.
However, we described for each included
study any methods used to
blind or partially
blind study participants and personnel from knowledge of
which intervention a participant received.
The
study was double
blinded, but it is conceivable that participants could develop insight into
which group they were in because of the compressive effect of the socks and the fact that they felt «tight.»
We described for each included
study the methods used, if any, to
blind outcome assessors from knowledge of
which intervention a woman received.
Interviewers, who were not involved in the intervention process and who were
blinded to the group to
which the children belonged, conducted home visits at 6 and 12 months in order to collect data on the
study variables.
For each included
study, we described the method used, if any, to
blind study participants and personnel from knowledge of
which intervention a participant received.
For one thing, they point out, acupuncture
studies are extremely difficult to double -
blind — a methodological approach in
which neither the researchers nor patients know who is receiving the treatment under investigation and who is receiving the placebo or sham.
Interestingly, other
studies in the Goodale lab have shown that
blind expert echolocators are also subject to illusions, for example the size - weight illusion in
which the perception of mass is influenced by the size of an object.
The
study was conducted double -
blind,
which means that neither the researchers nor the participants were allowed to know whether they received the active capsules until afterwards.
The research was conducted as a
blind study,
which means that the hospital sent us measurement data for analysis without any additional information, says Project Manager Tero Koivisto from the Department of Future Technologies.
«This may indicate that they knew the stimulation was not active, and thus they were no longer
blinded to the
study,
which is a challenge in any sham stimulation
study,» he said.
A double -
blind study design was used so that neither the mothers nor the researchers knew
which spray was administered.
«To prove the efficacy we need double -
blind control
studies,
which is very difficult to conduct in such settings,» he says.
The
study was double -
blind, so neither the participants nor the researchers knew at the time of testing who had received
which capsule.
The research,
which appears online Aug. 1 in the journal Annals of Neurology, is the first
study from a double -
blind controlled randomized trial of an exon - skipping agent to provide conclusive proof based on the standard six - minute walk test used to measure muscle function in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), the most common form of muscular dystrophy in children.
Vandewalle's
study,
which involved three completely
blind participants, found that just a few seconds of light altered brain activity, as long as the brain was engaged in active processing rather than at rest.
Michelle Montopoli, an NAU alumna and student at the time of the
study, led the EEG testing phase
which included measuring serving sizes of the samples based on participant weight and packaging them so the participants were
blind to what they were tasting.
The investigators
studied the effects of ∆ 9 - THC on electrical brain activity in 24 human subjects who participated in a three - day
study during
which they received two doses of intravenous ∆ 9 - THC or placebo in a double -
blind, randomized, cross-over, and counterbalanced design.
blinded study - a clinical trial in
which the
study participant is not told whether or not he / she is receiving a
study product or a placebo.
The
study,
which focused on older women, was an observational
study (as opposed to a
blind study comparing two regimens).
A brown dwarf atmosphere is easier to
study than that of an exoplanet,
which is typically obscured in the
blinding light of its parent star.
She noted too that with its rigorous «active control» design, it provides a good paradigm for the future
study of interventions such as meditation, to
which patients can not be
blinded.
The
study was «double -
blind,» meaning that neither the researchers nor the participants knew
which people were taking esketamine and
which were taking the placebo.
The FDA based approval on two double -
blind studies, involving a total of 1,800 patients,
which showed decreased pain after use of doses ranging from 300 to 450 mg a day.
In a double -
blind, placebo - controlled
study, they tested subjects» cognitive abilities using three methods, asking them to do simple math, a timed - response task, and the classic Stroop test (in
which color words like red are written in other colors, like blue, and subjects are asked about the color or the word).
The
study was double -
blind: neither the subjects or the researchers knew
which set of capsules was the placebo and
which was Shroom TECH Sport.
The double
blind study,
which analyzed performance, body composition, and hormone levels, randomized twenty - eight individuals to ingest either T + or a calorie - matching placebo, while all subjects adhered to a structured exercise program.
Secondly, bitter taste stimulates the secretion of polypeptide YY (PYY),
which reduces food intake in subjects of normal weight, so researchers decided to test the effects of the peptide infusion on the appetites of 12 obese and 12 lean subjects in a double -
blind, placebo - controlled crossover
study.
Researcher Burke and his co-workers
studied this proposal when they compared the changes in muscle creatine, muscle fiber morphology, body composition, hydration status, and exercise performance between vegetarians and non-vegetarians over an eight - week resistance - training program, in
which, in double
blind fashion, ten vegetarians took creatine and eight took a placebo 2.
Dr. Abram Hoffer, who is announced as «discredited» by Wikipedia, has successfully been treating patients with pyschosis for 50 years with vitamin B3, Niacin,
which was successful in pyschitry's first placebo control double
blind study.
The
study was double
blind,
which means that neither the scientists nor the participants knew
which diet they were following.
The
study was a double -
blind, randomised - controlled crossover trial in
which the Curcumin or placebo were taken two days before to three days after eccentric exercise and the results found that only the Curcumin had beneficial effects.
Bray also discusses the fact that sweetened beverages in general, as compared to sweeteners added to solid foods, have a greater tendency to cause weight gain, citing a randomized, double -
blind European
study by Rabin and others,
which found that drinking calorically sweetened beverages resulted in greater weight gain over the ten - week
study than did drinking diet drinks.8 Since the beverages in this
study were sweetened with sucrose, Bray called for a second randomized controlled
study to compare sucrose - and HFCS - sweetened beverages.
Next up was Don't Use Antiseptic Mouthwash,
which describes the role the natural good bacteria flora on our tongue plays in the performance - boosting effect of high nitrate vegetables, and Out of the Lab onto the Track,
which documented the randomized, double -
blind, placebo - controlled crossover
studies that convinced the scientific establishment of the real - world effect.
The
study was well designed; it was a double
blind, placebo controlled trial on humans,
which is the gold standard of scientific research.
During what would be his final season at Manassas, the coach and his team were followed around by a camera crew highlighting O.C. Brown, a player who, reminiscent of the story of Michael Oher
which was told in «The
Blind Side,» was being helped along by a local family to ensure he
studied hard so that he could go to college.
On its surface, Esil Vogt's
Blind is an intimate character
study of a woman who having lost her sight is only left with her imagination to keep her invested in a world on
which she is slowly losing her grip.
An Institute
study measured the extent to
which cameras and sensors improved rear visibility and reduced
blind zones for an object with the height of an average 12 -15-month-old child in 21 vehicles.
In this context dogs showed responses to e-collar stimuli
which were clearly discernible to a «
blinded» observer, and showed changes in behaviour and physiology that other
studies have interpreted as indications of aversive arousal or anxiety (e.g. Beerda et al 1998; Schilder and van der Borg 2004).
Bottom Line: Without varying extent, there's a limit to what can be learned — and interpretations can run seriously afoul with so many
blind spots (
which are guaranteed if only one extent is
studied).
(
Which raises the question, how would you do a double
blind study to test the placebo effect itself.
However, I confess I generally value logically derived, intellectually disciplined opinions produced through a dedicated lifetime of training, thought and
study more highly than opinions and screeds generated by
blind prejudice (
which scientists might have in plenty), warped upbringing (again, not claiming scientists don't suffer this too), and irrationality (a trifecta).
A paper reporting a «rigorous double
blind»
study — the VIGOR trial — was submitted to NEJM in 1998, got through peer review at one of the most up - tight journals in the world of medicine, and — by way of cherry - picking the data submitted (selecting out some
study subjects whose adverse events histories
which, if considered, would've significantly affected the safety profile for rofecoxib and revealed something that Merck really didn't want us prescribers to learn about their «blockbuster» product — was published to be touted by Merck's marketing weevils as solid proofs of Vioxx's tolerability, efficacy, and safety.