Double-blind Solomon four-group design
The double-blind Solomon four-group design combines Richard Solomon's classic four-group structure — which isolates pretest sensitization effects — with double-blind blinding, ensuring that neither participants nor outcome assessors know group assignments. This combination yields high internal validity by controlling simultaneously for testing effects, expectancy bias, and experimenter influence, making it one of the most rigorous true experimental designs available.
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- Solomon, R. L. (1949). An extension of control group design. Psychological Bulletin, 46(2), 137–150. · DOI 10.1037/h0062958
- Campbell, D. T., & Stanley, J. C. (1963). Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research. Rand McNally. · ISBN 978-0395307878
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