A recent interesting commentary in nature suggests researchers should "blind" themselves to their data, and instead analyse a similar but altered data set. When

A recent interesting commentary in nature suggests researchers should "blind" themselves to their data, and instead analyse a similar but altered data set. When they are happy with their anaysis, the steps are then applied to the real data. The aim is to prevent confirmation bias. http://www.nature.com/news/blind-analysis-hide-results-to-seek-the-truth-1.18510 http://www.nature.com/news/blind-analysis-hide-results-to-se...