Skip to contentScholarGate
LibraryBookshelfDeskReview StudioAssistant
Sign in
Double-blind Control Group Experimental Design/Evidence
Method evidence record

Double-blind Control Group Experimental Design

A double-blind control group experimental design is a rigorous experimental structure in which participants are randomly assigned to at least one treatment group and one control group, while both the participants and the researchers collecting or assessing outcomes are kept unaware of group assignment. By combining allocation concealment with blinding at two levels, the design minimizes expectancy bias, placebo effects, and assessor bias simultaneously, making it a cornerstone of high-quality intervention research in medicine, psychology, and the social sciences.

Sources recorded, not reviewed

Source record

Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.

Double-blind Randomized Experiment with Control Group
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / experimental-design
  • Fisher, R. A. (1935). The Design of Experiments. Oliver and Boyd. · URL
  • Blinded experiment. Wikipedia. · URL
Open full method

Curated claims

Claims persisted in the evidence ledger, each with its own assessment.

No curated claims yet

This view does not invent a claim assessment when the ledger has none.

Related methods

Generated from the method graph and shown as machine-suggested relations — no evidence claim is inferred.

Taxonomic bucketControl Group Experimental Designmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketFactorial Experimentmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketPretest-Posttest Experimental Designmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Used in the same domainRandomized Controlled Trialmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketSingle-blind control group experimental designmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

Evidence status

Sources recorded, not reviewed

Bibliographic sources are present. Claim-level evidence review has not been performed.

Sources

2 recorded citations, copied from the method source record.

Actions

Open method page
ScholarGate

A content-first reference library for research methods — what each one is, how it works, and where it comes from.

Open data (CC-BY)

Explore

  • Library
  • Search the library…
  • Browse by field
  • Fields
  • Journey
  • Compare
  • Which method?

Reference

  • Subjects
  • Atlas
  • Glossary
  • Methodology
  • Philosophy

Your tools

  • Bookshelf
  • Desk
  • Chat

Company

  • About
  • Pricing
  • Contact
  • Suggest a method

Entries are compiled from published sources for reference. Verifying the accuracy and suitability of any information for your own use remains your responsibility.

© 2026 ScholarGate · A research-method reference library
  • Privacy
  • Cookies
  • Terms
  • Delete account