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

• Hoofdauteurs: Van den Broeck Jan (Auteur), Perry Ivan J (Auteur), Brestoff Jonathan R (Auteur)
• Formaat: Boek
• Gepubliceerd in: BMC, 2011-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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<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...