{"id":7237,"date":"2011-01-17T09:30:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T13:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=7237"},"modified":"2011-01-17T10:57:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T14:57:16","slug":"another-reason-to-view-self-reported-study-data-with-caution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/01\/17\/another-reason-to-view-self-reported-study-data-with-caution\/","title":{"rendered":"Another reason to view self-reported study data with caution"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a reason that studies that depend on direct observation\/measurement often differ in their results from studies that depend on self-reporting by the group being studied — because people lie<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Many mothers are under so much pressure to appear like perfect parents that they cover up how much television their children watch or what they cook their families, according to a survey.<\/p>\n

Such “white lies” also extend to how much “quality time” mothers spend with their partner, website Netmums said its survey of 5,000 people suggested.<\/p>\n

The parenting site said mothers often made each other feel “inadequate”.<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

Almost two-thirds of those surveyed said they had been less than honest with other mothers about how well they were coping and almost half covered up financial worries.<\/p>\n

Almost a quarter of mothers admitted to downplaying how much television their children actually watched — and one in five “span a yarn” over how long they played with their children.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a reason that studies that depend on direct observation\/measurement often differ in their results from studies that depend on self-reporting by the group being studied — because people lie: Many mothers are under so much pressure to appear like perfect parents that they cover up how much television their children watch or what they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[374,39,375,290],"class_list":["post-7237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-science","tag-children","tag-junkscience","tag-parents","tag-statistics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1SJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7239,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237\/revisions\/7239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}