When comparing the objectively measured data to the subjective data, it appears that in our study, participants tended to overestimate their physical activity.
Analysis including and excluding the outliers (body mass index change >3× SD above or below mean body mass index change between T0 and T2 (objectively measured data)) were performed to whether the intervention effect was robust against these outliers in the data.
Subjectively reported information from the patients will then be compared to objectively collected data.
In conclusion, this is the first paper studying the relationship between attitudes and sickness absence using objectively measured data on sickness absence.
Access to objectively analyzed data can inform decision making and enable more robust and informed decisions that affect quality and efficiency for transportation system users.
As physicians and scientists, we are naturally inclined to trust sophisticated and objectively derived data that are published in scientific, peer-reviewed journals and are presented to us in the form of numbers, tables, and graphs.
But when people get personalized recommendations based on accurate and objectively measured data from their own body, they are more inclined to make small adjustments to their lifestyle for improved sleep quality and daytime performance.
So given that memory is highly unreliable and malleable, as demonstrated by the "he said, she said, they said" affair to the Nth degree in the Michael Brown murder case, then clearly we need to have in place tools that can objectively gather data, and police body cameras are a good start.
We believe that objectively quantifying data quality will provide a more comprehensive picture of a site's performance.
This study demonstrates the possibility to derive a precise metric system for semantics of human experiences objectively from data collected without using human subjects.
