Note: This study found no significant biological effects under its experimental conditions. We include all studies for scientific completeness.
Reducing overestimation in reported mobile phone use associated with epidemiological studies.
Tokola K, Kurttio P, Salminen T, Auvinen A. · 2008
View Original AbstractPeople overestimate their cell phone use by about 100%, undermining the reliability of most mobile phone health studies.
Plain English Summary
Researchers compared what 70 people said about their cell phone use in interviews versus actual usage data from phone companies. They found people consistently overestimated how much they used their phones, reporting about twice as much talk time as the records showed. This matters because most studies on cell phone health effects rely on people accurately remembering and reporting their usage, which this study shows they don't do well.
Study Details
We assessed the validity of self-reported mobile phone use and developed a statistical model to account for the over-reporting of exposure.
We collected information on mobile phone use from 70 volunteers using two sources of data: self-repo...
No significant improvement in the model fit was achieved by including potential predictors of accura...
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@article{k_2008_reducing_overestimation_in_reported_3446,
author = {Tokola K and Kurttio P and Salminen T and Auvinen A.},
title = {Reducing overestimation in reported mobile phone use associated with epidemiological studies.},
year = {2008},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18521851/},
}