self-report
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“We’d still be relying on the platforms to define their own rules, apply their own models and self-report their outcomes.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
"Serious questions need to be asked about how, if trusts are unable to accurately self-report compliance, how satisfied can we be that similar misreporting is not commonplace in other areas of self-reporting."
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025
Beimel uses motion capture to provide pitching feedback, and uses health technology that coincides with its athletes having to self-report daily to track overexertion and determine how best to use their bodies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2025
While he acknowledged the limitations of a study that relies on officers to self-report force, Ross said the results are significant.
From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2024
The EPA methane estimate for landfills uses the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, which requires high-emitting facilities to self-report their emissions annually.
From Science Daily ● May 1, 2024
This doesn’t prove they are conscious, but it shows these self-reports track the model’s truth-telling mechanisms, not random outputs the model learned to parrot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025
United Utilities said some of its sewage releases into Windermere were "potentially non-compliant" but that it self-reports "over 94% of potential pollution incidents to the Environment Agency".
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2024
This data included self-reports from more than 31,000 women, 4,184 who underwent tubal sterilization.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2024
Each participant provided self-reports of their diets and weights every four years.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 28, 2023
The study was based on daily self-reports and did not factor in COVID-19 variants or participants’ demographics, according to Zoe Health.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2022
The majority of the studies on UPFs that make headlines are observational papers looking at associations between self-reported food intake and health outcomes—these tell us little about whether UPFs actually cause ill health.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026
Healthy life expectancy is not a perfect metric; it is self-reported and so relies on how people feel about their own health.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
In several Western countries, self-reported loneliness among young adults appears to have risen over the past four or five decades; young adults report more loneliness than middle-aged or older adults.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Because participants self-reported their habits, some responses may have been inaccurate.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2026
It also includes self-reported premiums paid for Medicare Part D, Medicare Advantage and private supplemental plans.
From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026
“Patients are self-reporting, and telehealth companies don’t have the patient in front of them to conduct a proper medical assessment,” said Rupal Mathur, an internist in Houston whose practice specializes in weight loss.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026
The ratings are also “vulnerable to self-reporting bias,” they add.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 10, 2026
A United Utilities spokesperson responded saying "we are industry leading at self-reporting incidents to the Environment Agency".
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2025
The scientific literature on the issue, however, is scant—just a few studies, the largest of which relied on hemorrhoid self-reporting rather than evaluations, which makes the results less reliable.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2025
The "self-reporting" system was the hobby of this man.
From The Evolution of Dodd by Smith, William Hawley
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