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 ...

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, ...

Objectivity is in many ways a myth — but this isn’t a novel thought. I think we all accept that no one can be truly objective in how they view a situation. But our lack of objectivity goes even deeper ...

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 ...

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 ...

I never miss Shivam Vij’s articles in The Express Tribune. Not only does he write about the shenanigans of the politicians, he also comes across as a sane, balanced writer who on occasion slips a ...

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 ...