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The idea is that preferences, or judgments of desirability, may be responsive to a salience condition.
Desirability may be based on a person's national stature, research interests, background, or some other unique characteristic that appeals to the institution.
Second, patients may view an ED visit for a fall as a major event, and due to social desirability, may have reported discussing this fall with anyone on the follow-up questionnaire even though such discussions may have never taken place.
"So people we think of as of equal desirability may not see it the same way".
Social desirability may not fully explain these findings.
Also, as the questionnaires were administered by the trainer, social desirability may have influenced the results.
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Finally, a social desirability bias may be present as interviewees may have wanted to please the researchers by mentioning their willingness to improve their curriculum.
Social desirability bias may also have been introduced as participants may have given answers which they deemed to be appropriate to the researchers not necessarily which reflected their true beliefs about the situation.
Although automated surveys can introduce other problems, reducing social desirability bias may be one of their benefits, since voters may feel as though their answers are more anonymous.
While reporting bias, specifically social desirability bias, may have a profound impact here, other influences may include question misinterpretation and issues of recall [82].
Because this topic is subject to the effect of social desirability, bias may have occurred in the data, since the respondents may not have answered the questions completely truthfully.
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