Blind analysis: Hide results to seek the truth

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More fields should, like particle physics, adopt blind analysis to thwart bias, urge Robert MacCoun and Saul Perlmutter.

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  1. Robert MacCoun is a psychologist and a professor of law at Stanford University in California, USA.,

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  2. Saul Perlmutter is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics.,

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  1. Robert MacCoun
  2. Saul Perlmutter

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See Editorial P.163, Features P.178 & P.182, and Comment P.189.

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MacCoun, R., Perlmutter, S. Blind analysis: Hide results to seek the truth. Nature 526, 187–189 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/526187a

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