alt Hacker NewsI used to do canvassing and yeah, I never believe official stats anymore.
Especially anything that's self reported or whatnot. People lie. People misunderstand questions. No process is perfect.
I used to do canvassing and yeah, I never believe official stats anymore.
Especially anything that's self reported or whatnot. People lie. People misunderstand questions. No process is perfect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_census_phenomenon
Unfortunately, this extends to research studies. My mother enrolled me in the Growing Up Today Study (https://gutsweb.org/). I eventually stopped responding to that, as I couldn't see how any child (or even adult) could answer their questions on estimated food consumption remotely accurately, making the whole thing seeming dubiously ethical.
It's cited constantly in the research on ultra-processed food you see these days.