Challenging the role of social norms regarding body weight as an explanation for weight, height, and BMI misreporting biases: Development and application of a new approach to examining misreporting and misclassification bias in surveys

Challenging the role of social norms regarding body weight as an explanation for weight, height, and BMI misreporting biases: Development and application of a new approach to examining misreporting and misclassification bias in surveys

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Cultural pressures to be thin and tall are postulated to cause people to misreport their body weight and height towards more socially normative (i.e., desirable) values, but a paucity of direct evidence supports this idea. We develop...

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Main Authors: Van den Broeck Jan, Perry Ivan J, Brestoff Jonathan R
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-05-01
Series:BMC Public Health
Subjects:
Social norms
social desirability
BMI bias
misreporting bias
weight bias
height bias
misclassification bias
survey
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/11/331

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