Abstracts of randomized phase 3 clinical trials in gastrointestinal oncology frequently use subjective minimizing language to characterize serious toxicities, according to results of a systematic ...

After inventing calculus, actuarial tables, and the mechanical calculator and coining the phrase “best of all possible worlds,” Gottfried Leibniz still felt his life’s work was incomplete. Since ...

For the critical third element of the revised catch rule, the NFL’s Competition Committee could have chosen an objective standard or a subjective standard. The Competition Committee has chosen both.

Memory involves both recall of specific details (who, where, when) and feelings of remembering and reliving past events. New research from the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain shows that these ...

Management experts have debated for decades the most useful way to assess employee performance. In today's businesses, employers tend to rely on a mix of subjective and objective measures as part of a ...

BACKGROUND The link between economic forces and family dynamics has received renewed attention in the present era of heightened uncertainty. Economic uncertainty has usually been linked to unfavorable ...

BMS: Bulletin of Sociological Methodology / Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique, No. 116 (OCTOBER 2012), pp. 76-87 (12 pages) We propose, like D. Merllié, to study the links between "objective" ...

The field of psychology is vast, and there are many ways to carve it up. For example, one possible difference is between animal and human psychology. Another division is between science and practice.

A criticism of happiness research is that it often relies on what a person says about his or her own happiness. Calling a self-report measure of happiness "subjective well-being" seems not to help ...

A new study has found that subjective evaluations are comparable with and complementary to objective measures of teacher effectiveness taken from a teacher's first year in the classroom. A study ...