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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by abugher on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @08:58PM (#16541660)
Tangent:

I think you should really have someone who hasn't seen the app test with the blindfold.

Is that double blind, or just single blind plus literally blind?

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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by fludlight on Thursday March 08, 2018 @02:54AM (#16543006)
In a medical context, double blind means neither the patient or the doctor knows if the patient is receiving the drug being tested or a placebo.

I'm not sure how that would work for software, but it sounds like a much larger experiment than is currently customary.

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