On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Harry Veeder <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> The only reason to do a blank test is to test the competency/honesty >> of the experimenter. > > A blank test can be faked as easily as any other, so it would not test the > honesty of experimenter. > - Jed >
If you were hiring someone to experimentally investigate a new phenomena, you could test their competency and honesty by making them perform a series of unrelated but contrived experiments where the inputs and outcome are known to you a-priori. Harry
