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Volunteer bias
Volunteer bias refers to a bias in the results of sex surveys that arises when some people refuse to participate, so that those who are in the sample are volunteers who may in some ways differ from those who refuse to participate. It is a threat to external validity that occurs because volunteers are not perfectly representative of the general population.
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