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 behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. There are a variety of tools that can help researchers analyze large volumes of ...

A new grant awarded to a researcher from Virginia Tech illuminates an important but poorly understood fact about science and engineering – it's all done by humans and humans are not objective ...

Most academic disciplines belonging to broad category of social sciences are intrinsically interpretative. This is because any claimed addition/contribution to ‘knowledge’ in any branch of social ...

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 ...

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 ...