Validation revealed a very good agreement in reporting smoking habits by interview and questionnaire, and we do not believe that this may have introduced bias.
We collected information about demographics, health history, and health habits by interview and self-administered questionnaire and obtained infant birth weight and gestation length from medical records (Oken et al. 2004).
Data collected comprise sociodemographic characteristics, gambling habits, an interview about enjoyment and feeling out of control during the gambling session, moderator impact on gambling practice, statement of gambling parameters and questionnaires (BMIS, GRCS, CPGI, GACS).
To assess their dietary habits, brief interviews were conducted with the children.
We collected information on lifestyle (alcohol consumption and smoking habits) through interviews.
Mr. Irons, 53, was relaxing in his trailer on the set of the Showtime movie "Last Call," with his feet up (a longtime interview habit of his, if other reports are to be believed), smoking a cigarette he rolled himself (he had to ask a crew member to bring his tobacco and lighter, which he had left behind on the set), and sharing his thoughts on Fitzgerald's psyche.
Vollmann has been criticized for such a strategy -- as he has for his habit of paying interview subjects, a tactic purists see as a violation of journalistic standards -- but "Imperial" has more in common with the "Seven Dreams" novels than with any straight work of ethnography or history; it's literally all over the map.
Having indulged in the customary New Labour habit of briefly interviewing himself ("Am I satisfied? No, I'm not.
Like almost everything else that involves Palin – who, despite her habit of avoiding interviews in what she calls the "lamestream media," has still not ruled out a run for the 2012 Presidency – the broadsides are receiving endless attention.
(She posited a suggestion that undergraduate schools adopt interview habits like those of business schools, in which only promising applicants are granted interviews, heightening the value of the meeting, and giving those students not admitted an earlier, less personalized let-down).
