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Lying devils

Americans lie about how much they go to church.

My interest was piqued by seeing that some people have actually used the Time Use surveys to calculate church attendance, which I thought would be an interesting project.

(JSTOR link: Stanley Presser and Linda Stinson. "Data Collection Mode and Social Desirability Bias in Self-Reported Religious Attendance," American Sociological Review, v. 63 (1998): 137-145.)

Posted by robe0419 at April 12, 2005 2:12 PM