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1/ Ignore any paper based on self-reported data guzey.com/statistics/don…
2/ “60% of the “vegetarians” reported having eaten meat within the last 24 hours.” businessinsider.com/survey-60-of-s…
3/ “Administrative records matched to commonly-used surveys (ACS, SIPP, CPS) show that among actual food stamp recipients, 23-50% report not having received these benefits.”
4/ "Almost all research examining the harmful effects of social media (SM) have used self-reports of SM. But, new research has found, such self-reports are hardly related to actual SM use ... the average correlation between self and actual is about .20"
5/ “dieters underreport consumption by hundreds of calories. And that’s 24-hour recall, which is supposed to be the most reliable.”
6/ “Those who said that they would return the entire amount actually did so more often than those who said that they would keep all the money, but the difference is small and not statistically significant at conventional levels.”
7/ “Program receipt in the CPS [Current Population Survey] is missed for over one-third of housing assistance recipients, 40% of food stamp recipients and 60 percent of TANF [Temporary Assistance for Needy Families] and General Assistance recipients.” nber.org/papers/w21676 
8/ “For the weekly time spent online, the rank correlation between self-report and log data was r = .38 (p < .01), for the frequency per month measure, the relationship was even weaker (r = .29, p < .01).” tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
9/ “State survey estimates of consumption accounted for a median of 22% to 32% of state sales data across years.” ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20626370
10/ People support both higher taxes and lower taxes simultaneously, depending on how the question is framed
11/ From Cards Against Humanity Pulse of the Nation thepulseofthenation.com
57.9% say that “men and women are equal in their talents and abilities” and that “women in positions of power are better able to feel empathy than men” ...
57.9% say that “men and women are equal in their talents and abilities” and that “women in positions of power are better able to feel empathy than men” ...
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...56.4% say that "men and women are equal in their talents and abilities" and that "women are better at multi-tasking than men"
39.1% of Democrats say that "it is wrong to negatively stereotype people based on their place of birth" and that "southerners are more racist"...
...56.4% say that "men and women are equal in their talents and abilities" and that "women are better at multi-tasking than men"
39.1% of Democrats say that "it is wrong to negatively stereotype people based on their place of birth" and that "southerners are more racist"...
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...34.5% say that they "trust the scientific consensus" and that "GMOs are not safe to eat"
8.6% say that "humanity will not survive the next 100 years" and that "America will survive the next 100 years"
...34.5% say that they "trust the scientific consensus" and that "GMOs are not safe to eat"
8.6% say that "humanity will not survive the next 100 years" and that "America will survive the next 100 years"
