Treatment is indicated in patients with Pagetâs disease of bone with elevations in serum alkaline phosphatase of two times or higher than the upper limit of the age-specific normal reference range, or those who are symptomatic, or those at risk for complications from their disease [see Clinical Studies (14.5)].
experimenter bias - (psychology) bias introduced by an experimenter whose expectations about the outcome of the experiment can be subtly communicated to the participants in the experiment. number of conclusions drawn from the reviewed studies were unfounded because the experimenters inferred causation from correlation, lacked standardized measures, had poor sampling procedures, failed to control for threats to validity, had very limited assessment of anxiety, had.
If the experimenter is aware of the hypothesis of the experiment, it is more likely that the hypothesis will be confirmed. The experimenter-bias effect can be controlled by keeping not only the subjects (single-blind) but also the experimenter blind to the hypothesis. This is called the double-blind procedure.