Challenging the role of social norms regarding body weight as an explanation for weight height and BMI misreporting biases: Development and application of a new approach to examining misreporting and misclassification bias in surveys

摘要

BackgroundCultural pressures to be thin and tall are postulated to cause people to misreport their body weight and height towards more socially normative (i.e., desirable) values, but a paucity of direct evidence supports this idea. We developed a novel non-linear approach to examining weight, height, and BMI misreporting biases and used this approach to examine the association between socially non-normative weight and misreporting biases in adults.