Skip to content Skip to navigation
University of Warwick
  • Study
  • |
  • Research
  • |
  • Business
  • |
  • Alumni
  • |
  • News
  • |
  • About

University of Warwick
Publications service & WRAP

Highlight your research

  • WRAP
    • Home
    • Search WRAP
    • Browse by Warwick Author
    • Browse WRAP by Year
    • Browse WRAP by Subject
    • Browse WRAP by Department
    • Browse WRAP by Funder
    • Browse Theses by Department
  • Publications Service
    • Home
    • Search Publications Service
    • Browse by Warwick Author
    • Browse Publications service by Year
    • Browse Publications service by Subject
    • Browse Publications service by Department
    • Browse Publications service by Funder
  • Help & Advice
University of Warwick

The Library

  • Login
  • Admin

The analysis of human feelings : a practical suggestion for a robustness test

Tools
- Tools
+ Tools

Bloem, Jeffrey R. and Oswald, Andrew J. (2021) The analysis of human feelings : a practical suggestion for a robustness test. Review of Income and Wealth . doi:10.1111/roiw.12531 (In Press)

[img] PDF
WRAP-analysis-human-feelings-practical-suggestion-robustness-test-Oswald-2021.pdf - Accepted Version
Embargoed item. Restricted access to Repository staff only until 2 July 2023. Contact author directly, specifying your specific needs. - Requires a PDF viewer.

Download (805Kb)
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/roiw.12531

Request Changes to record.

Abstract

Governments, multinational companies, and researchers today collect unprecedented amounts of data on human feelings. These data provide information on citizens’ happiness, levels of customer satisfaction, employees’ satisfaction, mental stress, societal trust, and other important variables. Yet a key scientific difficulty tends to be downplayed, or even ignored, by many users of such information. Human feelings are not measured in objective cardinal units. This article aims to address some of the ensuing empirical challenges. It suggests an analytical way to approach the scientific complications of ordinal data. The article describes a dichotomous-around-the-median (DAM) test, which, crucially, uses information only on direction within an ordering and deliberately discards the potentially unreliable statistical information in ordered data. Applying the proposed DAM approach, this article shows that it is possible to check and replicate some of the key conclusions of previous research—including earlier work on the effects upon human well-being of higher income.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
H Social Sciences > HF Commerce
H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Consumer satisfaction , Well-being -- Economic aspects, Happiness -- Economic aspects, Trust -- Economic aspects, Corruption -- Economic aspects
Journal or Publication Title: Review of Income and Wealth
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
ISSN: 0034-6586
Official Date: 2 July 2021
Dates:
DateEvent
2 July 2021Available
24 May 2021Accepted
DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12531
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: In Press
Publisher Statement: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Bloem, J.R. and Oswald, A.J. (2021), The Analysis of Human Feelings: A Practical Suggestion for a Robustness Test. Review of Income and Wealth., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/roiw.12531. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

Request changes or add full text files to a record

Repository staff actions (login required)

View Item View Item
twitter

Email us: wrap@warwick.ac.uk
Contact Details
About Us