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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

BACKGROUND: 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 developed a novel non-linear approach to examining weight, hei...

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Autores principales: Brestoff, Jonathan R, Perry, Ivan J, Van den Broeck, Jan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3121629/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21592341
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-331