A recent interesting commentary in nature suggests researchers should &quot;blind&quot; 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.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;blind-analysis-hide-results-to-seek-the-truth-1.18510" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;blind-analysis-hide-results-to-se...</a>