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.

Subjective judgments, an essential information source for science and policy, are problematic because there are no public criteria for assessing judgmental truthfulness. I present a scoring method for ...

Marc Hooghe, Is Sexual Well-Being Part of Subjective Well-Being? An Empirical Analysis of Belgian (Flemish) Survey Data Using an Extended Well-Being Scale, The Journal of Sex Research, Vol. 49, No.

For example, in our article, we report a number of interesting relatinoships: we find a positive short-run effect for GDP and life expectancy on subjective wellbeing.

Governed by a council of experts in psychiatry and neurology, the Foundation for Improving Data Quality (FIDQ) will support objective, non-partisan applied research aimed at improving the validity, ...

Are individuals more sensitive to losses than gains in terms of economic growth? We find that measures of subjective well-being are more than twice as sensitive to negative as compared to positive ...

With this five-year, $500,000 CAREER grant, Salado will work to unveil how engineers form subjective opinions from objective data by running experiments with three different groups of middle school ...

Examples include recovering large-scale opinions about political candidates, predicting stock market trends, understanding diurnal and seasonal mood variation, detecting the social spread of ...

Quantitative data involves measurable evidence, while qualitative data stems from observation and interpretation, often being more subjective. “Quantitative data provides the hard numbers, trends and ...

Objective probability is the probability that an event will occur based on an analysis in which each measurement is based on a recorded observation.