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Experimenter gender and size estimation accuracy
Author(s) -
Thompson J. Kevin,
Connelly James J.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
international journal of eating disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.785
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1098-108X
pISSN - 0276-3478
DOI - 10.1002/1098-108x(198809)7:5<723::aid-eat2260070521>3.0.co;2-3
Subject(s) - confounding , estimation , psychology , statistics , waist , mathematics , body mass index , medicine , engineering , systems engineering , pathology
Sixty‐four female undergraduates were assigned to a male or female experimenter and required to estimate body widths for the waist, hips, and thighs. Level of inaccuracy was determined by comparing estimates with actual site sizes. Experimenter gender had no effect on levels of size‐estimation accuracy. The results are discussed with regard to the need to further manipulate aspects of subject samples and experimenter characteristics to determine possible confounding factors in body image research.