Subjectivity in survey data cannot be avoided. The simple act of asking a sample of people certain questions, and recording their subjective answers, entails faith that the data will be useful to you.

Subjectivity plays an important, yet dangerous, role in risk management. By its very nature, subjective perspectives are held in the mind of the beholder, and, as a result, are dependent on the ...

It seems everyone is interested in big data these days. From social scientists to advertisers, professionals from all walks of life are singing the praises of 21st-century data science. In the social ...

Think of any engineered system or product on the market. The decision for that system or product to be operational was made by an engineer. Given the same data, different engineers will make different ...

This important study reports three experiments examining how the subjective experience of task regularities influences perceptual decision-making. Although the evidence linking subjective ratings to ...

Finding better ways to measure subjective endpoints in clinical trials for central nervous system (CNS) diseases is the goal of a new US foundation that recently held its first meet in Washington, DC.

From data science to fact checking we talk today about the pursuit of objective and indisputable “truth.” Whether through the dogged work of human fact checkers chasing down references and reviewing ...