These findings suggest that errors made in self-reported weights are more likely due to human error or social desirability than scale inaccuracy.
For one thing, Mill need not confuse desire and desirability.
Transhumanism...affirms the possibility and desirability of fundamentally transforming the human condition...to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities (Wikipedia).
If, as it would appear from this statement, such central issues as the desirability of handing over human services to for-profit businesses are to be resolved by an evidence-free restatement of the commission's longstanding beliefs, why bother with the elaborate rigmarole of an inquiry?
Their responses may have been the result of social desirability bias — an aspect of human nature where people who are frequently counselled to take a certain action, like using condoms or brushing their teeth every night, may say they do so when asked, even if they don't.
Many recent college graduates prefer to stay in the area where they completed their degree because they have developed location-specific human capital that increases the area's desirability.
In fact, there is little debate over the desirability of a core set of human rights, such as prohibitions against slavery, genocide, murder, torture, prolonged arbitrary detention, and systematic racial discrimination.
So explanatory priority must be accorded to the basic human goods themselves, and to the self-evident desirability which makes each of them the object of an inclination in the will of anyone sufficiently intelligent and mature to understand their goodness (that is, the way they make human beings more fulfilled, more "perfect" [complete]).
For example, Sproull and colleagues found higher social desirability scores amongst respondents to a human-like computer interface compared to a text-based interface [ 24].
