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Social-desirability bias in surveys

The tendency of respondents to over-report socially approved behavior and under-report stigmatized traits in surveys.

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Feb 6, 2026

How do survey question wording and sampling methods change reported rates of anal sex and enjoyment among women?

Reported rates of anal intercourse and of women saying they enjoy it shift substantially with how surveys are asked and who is sampled: usually yield higher reports than face‑to‑face interviews, and t...

Jan 24, 2026

how do you avoid second order bias in the questions tHAT YOU ANsweR?

Avoiding in the questions an analyst or model answers means preventing earlier prompts, context or framing from unduly shaping subsequent questions and answers; — randomization, blocking/grouping, neu...

Jan 15, 2026

How much do self-reported penis sizes differ from clinician-measured sizes and what drives that bias?

Clinical measurement studies put the average erect penis length near 12.95–13.92 cm (≈5.1–5.5 in), a figure consistently lower than averages reported in self‑report surveys, which commonly cluster aro...

Jan 8, 2026

How much do self-reported penis sizes differ from clinician-measured values in peer-reviewed studies?

Peer-reviewed work consistently finds that self-reported penis lengths are larger than clinician-measured values, with typical gaps on the order of about 0.8–1.5 inches (2–4 cm): many self-report surv...

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