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 ...

Over the next decade, the objective study of subjectivity will transform the academy and the world beyond. Westerners have long labored under the assumption that objectivity and subjectivity operate ...

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 ...

For centuries, humanity has sought truth as if it were a fixed point, a universal coordinate we could all see the same way. However, in practice, truth often has as many versions as there are people ...

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 ...

Sorry to break it to you, but objectivity in journalism is a rare thing. If we're completely honest, we have to admit that any time someone sets out to report events, analyze a situation, and, yes, ...

Jason Voss is writing a multi-part series on real risk management. In Why context is paramount in risk management, he argued that quantitative data must match qualitatively chosen contexts. In Why ...

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 ...