Relying on self-reported symptoms to make a diagnosis is, even for the best clinicians, difficult enough.
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Most self-reported self-defense gun uses may well be illegal and against the interests of society.
It includes early-career salaries for college graduates from payscale.com, which are self-reported by users of the site.
Average self-reported weight is up nearly 20 pounds since 1990, according to a November 2011 Gallup poll.
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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 85% of self-reported drunken drivers were binge drinkers.
For those with self-reported symptoms, there was a noticeable difference 83 days before the peak in self-reported symptoms.
About 85 to 90 percent of users fulfill their contracts, but Karlan cautions that each person's progress is self-reported.
Self-reported studies are notoriously unreliable instruments, but, even so, the results were alarming.
On average, according to Facebook, 2.3% more self-reported female users changed their profile photos, compared with 2.1% more self-reported males.
Renren.com has a self-reported 160 million users and is known as the largest social network of its kind in the country.
They used a questionnaire from conventional ALS trials to gather patients' self-reported data on functions such as swallowing, walking, and breathing.
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In England, the highest proportion of self-reported use of chewing tobacco is among Bangladeshi women, at 19%, followed by Bangladeshi men at 9%.
United, meanwhile, said it self-reported the incident leading to its proposed fine and has since taken steps to ensure that safety standards are met.
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Early in 2010 she self-reported her weight at about 90 pounds.
In 2010, adults self-reported drinking and driving about 112 million times.
People who sign up are able to look at a map of the US or the UK and see areas where others have self-reported "symptoms" marked in orange.
However, despite the fact that music pages consistently rank among the top on the site, only 33% of self-reported Facebook gamers have every played a music-related game there.
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Yet even with these findings, the team knew that a crucial limitation of their work was that all of the data were self-reported by the people doing the praying.
Since 2008, more than 20, 000 of the service's student-athletes have self-reported that they have committed to a college or university and received some sort of scholarship, says Mr. Prabhakara.
The over-reliance on self-reported data is also called into question, and the absence of any meaningful indicators for teaching quality, personal development, or the impact of the alumni network.
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Of 140 seniors living independently, researchers found that the regular and occasional gamers scored significantly higher than nonplayers in terms of well-being, positive affect, social functioning and even (self-reported) health.
But the Ipsos study shows the highest levels of self-reported happiness not in rich countries, as one would expect, but in poor and middle-income ones, notably Indonesia, India and Mexico.
Those papers fail to use double-blind methods to strip out possible researcher bias, and most rely on self-reported mold exposure by patients, many of whom are involved in mold lawsuits.
The report recommends that the IRS analyze IRS employee noncompliance trends gleaned from self-reported cases and audit cases to help uncover more sophisticated noncompliance than that detected by the computer matching.
The new criteria replaces a set of 17 old criteria and focuses on specific issues that affect many nursing home residents, such as pressure ulcers, infections, self-reported pain, falls, and general well-being.
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The U.N. currently requires countries to submit national emissions inventories, but the data included in these inventories is self-reported, not required annually from all countries and rarely verified by an independent source.
We can argue about whether a change in body weight of a quarter of a pound per year is meaningful and how much faith we can put in these studies of self-reported diet.
Workers also self-reported fewer headaches and eye soreness.
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