Blind analysis: Hide results to seek the truth

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Authors and Affiliations

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

   Robert MacCoun

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

   Saul Perlmutter

Corresponding authors

Correspondence to Robert MacCoun or Saul Perlmutter.

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