Differences in associations could be related to differences in wording of pest treatment questions, time periods, and geographic regions.
Our questionnaire duplicated those of the Tasmanian study, with minor differences in wording of two items and omission of the response category of 'not applicable'.
These discrepancies in findings could be attributed to the differences in age range of the included patients [ 30] or differences in wording of survey items.
For data that was self-reported in both studies, subtle differences in wording of questions, and differences in the requested precision of responses, could contribute to disagreement between the studies.
Inconsistencies in relationships by pesticide may reflect a) whether the specific active ingredients were in the residential pest control products used, b) the timing of sample collection relative to when pesticides were used in the home or garden, or c) differences in wording of questions about residential use across studies.
This rivalrous, hothouse atmosphere, where whom you know is everything, and who sees your flowers can make all the difference in word of mouth, is hardly encouraging to new aspirants.
To quantify differences beyond subjects of conversation, we tested other statistics using the same method we used for testing differences in word usage: frequency of letter usage, letter pair usage, word length and three-letter word ending.
Comparison of BRFSS data with that of other surveys is likely to show the effects of differences in the wording of questions, the number of questions focusing on a single topic or measure, survey mode and/ or the length of the questionnaire.
This is relevant since even apparently minimal differences in wording may produce different interpretations of the question.
Even though there is great similarity in which dimensions are covered by the individual surveys one can find a lot of differences in the wording of questions as well as answering schemes in the items assessing the dimensions.
