Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being among blacks relative to whites. Investigating var...

The original formulation of the (weak) anthropic principle was prompted by a question about objective time at a macroscopic level, namely the age of the universe when “anthropic” observers such as ourselves would be most likely to emerge. Theoretical interpretation of what one observes requires the theory to indicate what is expected, which will commonly depend on where, and particularly when, ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between objective and subjective torsion in patients with cyclovertical strabismus and determine whether objective torsion differs according to which eye is fixing. DESIGN A prospective evaluation of tests of objective and subjective torsion. PARTICIPANTS Thirty-six patients with various types of cyclovertical strabismus. METHODS Subjective torsio...

This work proposes a new semi-supervised sentiment classification method by exploiting a large number of unlabeled instances to conduct sentiment classification for Web consumer reviews. In the proposed method every consumer review has two views: subjective view and objective view. The subjective view of a consumer review reflects the opinions expressed by opinion words, while the objective vie...

In this paper I address the question of whether the probabilities that appear in models of stochastic gene expression are objective or subjective. I argue that while our best models of the phenomena in question are stochastic models, this fact should not lead us to automatically assume that the processes are inherently stochastic. After distinguishing between models and reality, I give a brief ...

The subjective quality of single cane reeds used for saxophone or clarinet may be very different from a reed to another although reeds present the same shape and the same strength. In this work, we propose to compare three approaches for the characterization of reeds properties. The first approach consists in measuring the reed mechanical response (“in vitro” measurement) by means of a specific...

In this paper we present results from an investigation on correlations between subjective and objective evaluation metrics for young people using a conversational agent. The subjective evaluation metrics capture users’ experiences of different aspects of conversations with a virtual agent while the objective evaluation metrics are based on an analysis of the actual conversation between the user...

There is currently no standard objective method for the assessment of developmental breast asymmetry. The results of corrective surgery in 24 patients with congenital breast deformities were evaluated subjectively (symmetry scores by patients and panels of observers), and objectively (linear measurements of nipple position and stereophotogrammetrically determined breast volumes). The latter wer...