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by DavidWanjiru 3422 days ago
Since we're talking health outcomes here, how prudent is it to measure these outcomes based on respondents' self assessments of how healthy they are, as this study does, rather than empirically measuring those outcomes?
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If they're all sober the people who are just in a bad mood because they're sober and give a low rating probably magnify the variance /s