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Letter to the editor
Who should be blinded?
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Editor,—I was very pleased to read the recent article by Eston and Rowlands1 on the various stages of development of a research project. It is important to have papers on research methodology that deal specifically with sports science/medicine examples.
Even though the authors described the paper as “a brief guide to the most common sequence of stages”,1 it nevertheless addressed many good points about research design. However, their description of blinding was perhaps oversimplified, disregarding experimental design …