healthy user bias

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Noun

healthy user bias (countable and uncountable, plural healthy user biases)

  1. A potential bias in epidemiologic studies, involving the fact that subjects who voluntarily enroll in a clinical trial and actually follow the experimental regimen are likely to be healthier than the general population.
    Synonym: healthy worker bias

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