Deception Experiment: An Experiment In Which The Researcher Is Pleased To Believe That The True Nature Of The Situation Is Unknown To The Participants.

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Deception Experiment: An experiment in which the researcher is pleased
to believe that the true nature of the situation is unknown to the
participants. Typically the only parties deceived are the funding
agency and the journal editor.

ARTIFACT: The only true fact in an experiment.
Double-Blind Experiment, n.: An experiment in which the chief researcher believes he is fooling both the subject and the lab assistant.
Often accompanied by a belief in the tooth fairy....
double-blind Experiment, n: An experiment in which the chief researcher believes he is fooling both the subject and the lab assistant.
Often accompanied by a strong belief in the tooth fairy....
That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always serve as a bad example, or the exception that proves the rule (but only if it is the first experiment in the series).
-- Futility Facto...
An experiment in Artificial Stupidity.
Chemists like to experiment.

Deception Experiment: An Experiment In Which The Researcher Is Pleased To Believe That The True Nature Of The Situation Is Unknown To The Participants.

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