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Nonetheless, it is worth noting that social desirability bias would tend to overestimate the proportion of people willing to put themselves at risk for the common good.
Also, in case-control studies, it is usually observed that patients who had a recent adverse event are more likely to place greater emphasis (overestimate) on several factors related to the disease than the control group (recall bias).
However, when events are common, the OR may overestimate the effect of treatment [ 4 ] . Due to these characteristics of the analysis, we choose to show both (OR and RR) as a summary statistics.
They seemed well aware that some postings were erroneous, and in fact seemed to substantially overestimate the incidence of questionable materials.
This double counting means that our methods have the tendency to overestimate w neut ( d ). This overestimation, however, is not problematic in the context of the present paper, because - as we emphasized in the results - our main conclusions are based on the large contribution of w comp ( d ) to w ( d ). A correction for the overestimation of w neut ( d ) would increase the contribution of w comp ( d ), and would therefore make our conclusions even stronger.