Social Desirability Bias and Abortion
24th September 2014
Bryan Caplan never ceases to amaze.
Economists have long argued that we should pay a lot more attention to what people do and a lot less attention to what people say. But they make little effort to justify their pro-action/anti-talk position. The strongest evidence in favor of economists’ methodological scruples actually come from psychology, especially research on Social Desirability Bias. Earlier today, though, I stumbled on some striking confirmation from a unexpected field: medicine.