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Blinding
Keeping participants, practitioners, outcome assessors or analysts unaware of which condition each participant received, so that expectations cannot shape outcomes or their measurement. In psychological interventions participants usually know what they are doing, so full blinding is rarely possible; blinding outcome assessors and analysts remains feasible. Where blinding is absent, self-reported outcomes are more exposed to expectation effects than objective ones. How one could reason about recording a catharsis-like change of state: signals, features, inference and context, baselines, self-report, error costs and ethics, and why every step stays uncertain. Nothing on this site measures anyone. Every public claim on this site with its type, evidence level, confidence, sources and review date, and an appraisal of each reference. How claims are graded, how art is kept apart from evidence, and how to report a problem.Where the site uses it