השוואת שיטות

	מערך סולומון ארבע-הקבוצות הכפול-סמיות	ניסוי פקטוריאלי
תחום	תכנון ניסויים	תכנון ניסויים
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1949 (Solomon design); double-blind blinding integrated in 20th-century experimental practice	1926–1935
הוגה השיטה	Richard L. Solomon (base design); double-blind protocol is a general methodological standard	Ronald A. Fisher
סוג	True experimental design	Quantitative experimental design
מקור מכונן	Solomon, R. L. (1949). An extension of control group design. Psychological Bulletin, 46(2), 137–150.	Fisher, R. A. (1935). The Design of Experiments. Oliver and Boyd.
כינויים	double-blind S4GD, blinded Solomon design, double-blind four-group design, Solomon four-group with double-blind	factorial design, factorial ANOVA design, multi-factor experiment, crossed-factor design
קשורות	5	6
תקציר	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.	A factorial experiment is an experimental design in which two or more independent variables (factors) are manipulated simultaneously, and every combination of their levels is tested. Introduced by Ronald Fisher in the 1920s–1930s, it is the standard approach whenever a researcher needs to detect not only the main effect of each factor but also whether the effect of one factor depends on the level of another — the interaction effect.