This paper [1] by Bergstra, Cox is one of my favorites on competing without looking at the data. They were actually able to design the model before the data was

This paper [1] by Bergstra, Cox is one of my favorites on competing without looking at the data. They were actually able to design the model before the data was even released (!) [1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1306.3476v1.pdf http://arxiv.org/pdf/1306.3476v1.pdf