Measured data can challenge subjective impressions because conditions differ

Evidence

When meaningful measurements are incorporated in a review, there can be insightful commentary that relates to demonstrable product characteristics. The subjective comments included in these documents are not definitive, but the serious reviewers know it, and do what they can to minimize bias, like listening before doing measurements. The measured data is hard evidence that sometimes challenges the subjective impressions, especially as the listening rooms are different, programs are different, and so on. — Toole, Floyd E, Sound reproduction- the acoustics and…, 1082

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Identification might operate at a different level than researchers measured. — John Drury and Rupert Brown and Roberto González and Daniel Miranda, Emergent social identity and observing…, 120; Agencies evaluate what is measurable rather than what clients get. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 409