From: Michael Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Mon Mar 29 1999 - 00:59:30 MST
Julian Leviston wrote:
> Something I find interesting is the idea that in an experiment, there's no
> such thing as a "control" simply because the experimenter has an affect on
> the entire experiment. There's no such thing as "separateness" - it's all
> part of the way we think about things that brings about "categories".
This is not some mysterious thing. Double blind methods work just fine to
eliminate this effect from experiments.
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