self reporting

English

Verb

self reporting

  1. present participle and gerund of self report

Noun

self reporting (uncountable)

  1. Providing information about oneself in response to a questionnaire, survey, etc.
    • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 9:
      However, one abiding weakness with such data collection is that people’s beliefs about their speech habits may not necessarily tally with reality. In fact, the problem of self-reporting in data collection is universally acknowledged.
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