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We also excluded individuals with extreme anthropometric measurements as selective misreporting may be most pronounced in these individuals.

This finding suggests that age misreporting may be an important contributor to the black/white crossover, but that its impact is larger for women than for men.

Moreover, misreporting may be caused by the application of incorrect rules or by a lack of knowledge of the statistical test.

Mitigating the potential problem of BMI measurement error, recent research implies that misreporting may be a decreasing problem because of changes in social norms related to weight [ 63].

Given that GPs see a larger proportion of older patients, reporting of weight and height in this group may be less affected by social desirability bias and suggests that misreporting may be attributed largely to recall bias or not having an accurate knowledge of one's current weight and height.

However, the internal logic check did not identify over-reporting of sterile syringe use or under-reporting of risky practices in 13 of 16 test cases, so misreporting injection behaviours may be only a minor problem.

To the extent that study participants intentionally or inadvertently misreported, our findings may be biased.

There may be misreporting and overestimation of the duration of adolescents' computer use especially if there are different procedures to measure computer time [ 10].

5 While there have been remarkable increases in reported condom use in commercial sex work over the past decade, there may be misreporting of condom use as well as condom failure.

If these measurements are unreliable growth may be misreported, and health problems may go undetected.

Moreover, non-vigorous activities performed by overweight women, such as light housework, general gardening and light sports, may be misreported as vigorous activities among overweight individuals.