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- Title
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.
- Authors
Brestoff, Jonathan R; Perry, Ivan J; Van den Broeck, Jan
- Abstract
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, height, and BMI misreporting biases and used this approach to examine the association between socially non-normative weight and misreporting biases in adults.
- Publication
BMC public health, 2011, Vol 11, p331
- ISSN
1471-2458
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1186/1471-2458-11-331