These measurements can be useful because "Objective, psychophysiological measures, like the affect modulated startle eyeblink response, are less subject to reporting bias (Grillon & Baas, 2003)."
Chapter 3, "Time for a Change", describes how a media reporting bias is attempting to facilitate a Tory general election win.
Although some trials produced positive results, systematic reviews revealed that this was because of chance, flawed research methods, and reporting bias.
On this basis the authors used several demographic assessments such as the growth balance method to derive an adjustment for reporting bias.
Kimmel argues that among various other flaws, the CTS is particularly vulnerable to reporting bias because it depends on asking people to accurately remember and report what happened during the past year.
Thus, each incident of reporting bias can make future incidents more likely.
Many studies on this issue have suffered from reporting bias, since many transsexual people feel they must give the "correct" answers to such questions to increase their chances of obtaining hormone replacement therapy.
Moreover, Graham-Kevan & Archer argued that, by relying entirely on analysis of data from one partner in an abusive relationship, Johnson's study was incomplete and skewed due to reporting bias.
Assuming that these results are representative and free from reporting bias, approximately 240 students drove home after consuming alcohol.
An October 1987 study commissioned by the National Institute of Justice said that homosexuals rank with Southeast Asians as the least likely to report bias crimes.