Some 1.6 million Medicare beneficiaries were being "observed" nationally as of 2011.
The performance had a chilly quality, as if vast emotions were being observed from a distance.
The prisoners would never know at what times they were being observed, nor could they observe the guards.
He said he was "as discreet as possible, and I guess most couples didn't sense that they were being observed".
The study subjects never knew they were being observed.
Participants in the study were being observed for other reasons.
Thus, the thinking goes, the detainees never really knew when they were being observed.
The students knew they were being observed and still engaged in some form of distracting technology for 35percentt of the time within just the first 15 minutes.
One former senior State Department official said the American Embassy gets involved typically to let the foreign government know that Washington is observing whether basic human rights are being observed.
Forget formal observations, you're being observed by up to 30 pupils every lesson.
Aside from this bias, which can compromise objectivity in any undertaking, science itself has shown through quantum mechanics that the observer invariably influences that which is being observed.
