I've seen other instances where physicists working at CERN would blind themselves to the results of their computations while developing their algorithms, making

I've seen other instances where physicists working at CERN would blind themselves to the results of their computations while developing their algorithms, making sure the code was bug-free and physically accurate without running it "in production" as it were on the actual experimental results. This is to blind themselves to the actual statistics of the experiment so that "p-hacking" or manipulation of the results to fit a preconceived agenda is not a temptation.