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Sources of errors when taking weight

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- Weighing scale that is not calibrated to zero.
- Measuring a subject wearing heavy clothing.
- If the client is not calm
- intra-observer errors (e.g., angle of scale, patient looking at the scale, time
of day, stepping with both legs on the centre of scale
- Faulty equipment
- Errors during recording
- Observer error- parallax error when taking the reading

Titany answered the question on November 4, 2021 at 11:50

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