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The difference with the study of Hennessy et al. [ 11] is thought to result from recall bias and respondents in the general population may have thought that a stool culture request would be the desirable answer.
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The fourth limitation is related to the validity and reliability of studies that use structured quantitative tools, where young people might give the desirable answers regarding skills and attitudes.
People give pollsters what they think is the socially desirable answer — and saying yes to gay marriage has apparently achieved that status, which is interesting in itself — but revert to their unvarnished biases or beliefs when they actually vote.
Even if this is true, I'd still be very concerned that the apparent socially desirable answer is that Jews should not be trusted and that the West is out to get Muslims.
The first and most desirable answer is to reduce the incentive to evade by cutting tax rates.
"Live telephone surveys involve direct human interaction, and a commonly-observed trend is the respondent's desire to provide the interviewer with a socially desirable answer," they wrote.
Second, additional information from teachers would have been helpful to clarify the results on psychosocial functioning and would have helped to interpret the socially desirable answers.
Female sex workers whose activities are still regarded as illegal in China may provide a socially desirable answer, which may underestimate the stigma attitude.
Alternatively, Core participants may have been more likely to give a socially desirable answer (i.e. very good) because of the presence of an interviewer.
Self-reported sexual frequency may be higher than reported because patients may give a socially desirable answer about their sexual function.
Parent-reported questionnaires reflecting parenting practices may contain informant-specific error, such as fake-good behavior or socially desirable answer tendencies [ 19].
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