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by jldugger 3774 days ago
Well, it may be that the numbers are under / overreported, but the test could still be valid, in the sense that shifts in reported behavior are correlated with shifts in actual behavior. In other words, if you assume today's kids are no more likely to lie on a survey than in the past, you can get a sense of the direction of trends, if not the absolute values.