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.
In other words, the group hopes that the illness can one day soon be diagnosed using medical techniques like blood tests or brain scans, rather than self-reported symptoms.
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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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