One of the toughest questions to answer these days is “What is objectivity?” Few agree on a definition. And two films shown on PBS air turned the debate into a political firestorm. For more than a ...

I’ve heard professors get frustrated that students can’t tell them what a text means, but the same students can explain what a text means to them. There was a time when people emphasized the objective ...

I recently posted a new draft article to SSRN, "The Questionable Objectivity of Fourth Amendment Law," forthcoming in the Texas Law Review. Here's the abstract: The Supreme Court often insists that ...

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 ...

One of the biggest problems in reviewing tech products — especially mobile products such as cell phones, headsets, media players, etc — is the problem of objectivity. How objective can you be in a ...

Synthese, Vol. 57, No. 3, Rationality and Objectivity: Philosophical and Psychological Conceptions, Part II (Dec., 1983), pp. 341-365 (25 pages) It is argued that we need a richer version of Bayesian ...

According to FDA 820.3(z), “Validation means confirmation by examination and provision of objective evidence that the particular requirements for a specific intended use can be consistently fulfilled.