#### [[Looking at a collection of individually rated pieces will provide a more accurate opinion of them]] --- The individually rated "episode" sessions in ones day using the [[The Day Reconstruction Method|DRM]] method to get a more accurate assessment of ones true affect. When you ask a direct overall questions i.e. *"Do you enjoy your kids?"* the response you will receive is layered by socially acceptable societal norms *"of course i enjoy my children! How dare you imply otherwise!"* However when asked to rate and describe ones day chunked by episodes and interactions and then perform an assessment on how one feels during that episode you’re more likely to get an accurate assessment of the day/feelings. When the assessments are piece-meal and rated on an individual basis instead of an overall view-point/opinion/perspective, then you’ll get a less biased response. the example being instead of the overall question listed above, you get a variety of interactions that get tallied into an aggregated score that provides a more accurate personal opinion on the subject without taking socially acceptable behavior and societal norms into account with ones overall response. i.e. - normally *"of course i enjoy my children! How dare you imply otherwise!"* - *"I’m divorced, divorced people are usually not happy (says society), therefore my objective experience in comparison tells me i am not happy"* the influence of this on satisfaction judgments will wane over time due to [[The Hedonic Treadmill]] - where as the aggregated opinion: *"I enjoy caring for the kids second to least out of all listed activities."* --- Tags: [[Bias]] - [[Cognitive Bias]] - [[Perception]] - [[Society]] - [[Societal Norms]] - [[Psychology]] Reference: [[& 2021-01-15 A Survey Method for Characterizing Daily Life Experience The Day Reconstruction Method]] Related: