single-blind
Adjective
Meaning
single-blind (not comparable)
Describing an experiment (usually medical) in which some information which might influence the trial is withheld from particular participants until the experiment is complete. Most commonly, information about treatment groups is withheld from subjects, but not the administrators.
Coordinate terms: double-blind, triple-blind
Examples
All else being equal, the odds that single-blind reviewers bid on papers from top institutions is about 15 percent above parity.
We randomly split these PC members into a single-blind cadre and a double-blind cadre.