Reporting-bias in Surveys of Sensitive Personal Information

Selection Bias in reporting the prevalence of Transfusion Transmitted Infection Diseases in Iranian Hemophiliacs

personal fable: optimistic bias in cigarette smokers

background several empirical studies have shown the attitude of smokers to formulate judgments based on distortion in the risk perception. this alteration is produced by the activation of the optimistic bias characterized by a set of the unrealistic beliefs compared to the outcomes of their behavior. this bias exposes individuals to adopt lifestyles potentially dangerous for their health, under...

Sensitive questions in surveys.

Psychologists have worried about the distortions introduced into standardized personality measures by social desirability bias. Survey researchers have had similar concerns about the accuracy of survey reports about such topics as illicit drug use, abortion, and sexual behavior. The article reviews the research done by survey methodologists on reporting errors in surveys on sensitive topics, no...

Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing: A Method of Capturing Sensitive Information

IASSIST Quarterly Introduction This paper firstly will review the literature with a view to describing the current state of the art of CAI, secondly it will describe a Scottish housing project which used CAPI and consider the quality of data output, and thirdly, it will draw conclusions about the use of CA(P)I on the basis of the authors’ own findings but also placing the discussion in its wide...

Bias in Reporting of Genetic Association Studies

Carbohydrate-metabolizing enzymes may have particularly interesting roles in the honey bee, Apis mellifera , because this social insect has an extremely carbohydrate-rich diet, and nutrition plays important roles in caste determination and socially mediated behavioural plasticity. We annotated a total of 174 genes encoding carbohydrate-metabolizing enzymes and 28 genes encoding lipid-metabolizi...