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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the past several months, much has been said about transparency being the new objectivity in journalism. As news organizations figure out whether they’ll use social media, and, if so, how they’ll ...

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 ...

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 ...