A Cartoon to Explain How Blinding Works
The cartoon presented below is available from the artwork library of BayesianSpectacles.org under a CC-BY license. The cartoon was conceptualized by Alexandra Sarafoglou and was drawn by Viktor Beekman. It is included as an appendix in Dutilh, G., Sarafoglou, A., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (in press). Flexible yet fair: Blinding analyses in experimental psychology. Synthese. PsyArXiv Preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/d79r8
Because the procedure of analysis blinding is relatively rare and (in our experience) easily misunderstood, we clarified the key concepts using a cartoon. Here it is, courtesy of Viktor Beekman:
References
Dutilh, G., Sarafoglou, A., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (in press). Flexible yet fair: Blinding analyses in experimental psychology. Synthese. PsyArXiv Preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/d79r8.
About The Authors
Gilles Dutilh
Gilles is a statistician at the Clinical Trial Unit of the University Hospital in Basel, Switzerland.
Alexandra Sarafoglou
Alexandra Sarafoglou is a PhD candidate at the Psychological Methods Group at the University of Amsterdam.
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
Eric-Jan (EJ) Wagenmakers is professor at the Psychological Methods Group at the University of Amsterdam.
