Blind trust in unblinded observation in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
Blind trust in unblinded observation in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
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DOI：
10.3389/fevo.2015.00051
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发表时间：
2015-01-01
影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
Fang, Chi-Chun
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作者：
Kardish, Melissa R.;Mueller, Ulrich G.;Fang, Chi-Chun
我们调查了生态学、进化和行为 (EEB) 领域的 492 项最新研究，以评估观察者偏差的可能性以及每项研究中进行盲目实验的必要性。虽然 248 篇文章包含可能受到观察者偏见影响的实验，但这些文章中只有 13.3% 表明实验是盲目的。因此，要么在调查的文章中严重低估了盲法观察的使用，要么许多 EEB 研究并未采用盲法。我们希望 EEB 领域（包括研究人员、同行评审员和期刊编辑）的共同努力将有助于促进和建立常规的、盲目的观察，作为所有科学都应该实行的基本标准。
We surveyed 492 recent studies in the fields of ecology, evolution, and behavior (EEB) to evaluate potential for observer bias and the need for blind experimentation in each study. While 248 articles included experiments that could have been influenced by observer bias, only 13.3% of these articles indicated that experiments were blinded. The use of blind observation therefore was either grossly underreported in the surveyed articles, or many EEB studies were not blinded. We hope that a concerted effort of the field of EEB- including researchers, peer-reviewers, and journal editors-will help promote and institute routine, blind observation as an essential standard that should be practiced by all sciences.