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 (Author), Perry Ivan J (Author), Brestoff Jonathan R (Author)
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Published: BMC, 2011-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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