Subjective experience or objective process

Information: Subjective or Objective?

The target of this paper is to draw a comparison between information in living systems and information in inorganic contexts. The two representative contexts we will refer to are those of an organism and of solid state physics. We have published extensively elsewhere on the properties of a model hierarchy (e.g. Cottam et al, 2003; and most recently Cottam et al, 2016; Cottam et al, 2017), and t...

Information: Objective or subjective/situational?

objective and subjective ways of understanding information corresponds to the conflict between an understanding of information as a thing or a substance versus an understanding of it as a sign. It is a fundamental distinction that involves a whole theory of knowledge, and it has roots back to different metaphors applied in Shannon's information theory. It is argued that a subject-dependent/ sit...

Is quality a subjective or objective matter?

Everyone involved in early childhood services needs to think about how program quality is defined--as either objective, or as subjective and value-based. Subjective accounts involve perspectives on the nature of quality which come from thinking persons, while objective accounts involve the nature of quality as it exists, independent of the way that it is being interpreted. Research-based object...

Qualitative and quantitative scrutiny by regulatory process: is the truth subjective or objective?

The interpretation of systematic reviews with meta-analyses: an objective or subjective process?

BACKGROUND Discrepancies between the conclusions of different meta-analyses (quantitative syntheses of systematic reviews) are often ascribed to methodological differences. The objective of this study was to determine the discordance in interpretations when meta-analysts are presented with identical data. METHODS We searched the literature for all randomized clinical trials (RCT) and review a...