EXPERIMENTER BIAS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(psychology) bias introduced by an experimenter whose expectations about the outcome of the experiment can be subtly communicated to the participants in the experiment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("experimenter bias" is a kind of...):

bias; preconception; prejudice (a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation)

Domain category:

psychological science; psychology (the science of mental life)

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