Order of Questions Is Important

Weight-loss Answers Vary: Depend On When Asked

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, August 14th, 1995

"Are you on a diet'" The answer may depend on when you ask the question, and whether you're asking a man or a woman, researchers have demonstrated.

When the dieting question is asked before a respondent's weight is brought up, fewer people say they're trying to drop some pounds than people who are asked their weight first, followed by dieting questions. On a gender basis, women were more likely to fudge than men.

CDC's Mary K. Serdula and colleagues examined data from between 1985 and 1992 in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Their findings appear in "Effects of Question Order on Estimates of the Prevalence of Attempted Weight Loss,"...

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