Loneliness, on the other hand, is a subjective measure that researchers define as perceived social isolation how isolated a person feels.
First, many studies that demonstrate expertise reversal effects rely on subjective measures of cognitive load.
However, others question the use of subjective measures.
Short-term effects on asthma were noticed, by both objective and subjective measures.
Studies set up to test the efficacy of treatments for depression must rely upon more subjective measures: doctors' ratings or patients' own assessments.
This problem is exacerbated when using subjective measures of improvement.
The Karnofsky score is a subjective measure of how well the patient is doing.
It did by both subjective and objective measures.
Studies that used subjective measures of pain sometimes found associations and sometimes did not.
For what it's worth, subjective measures are very powerful.