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Keywords:
Interpretation,
Cally,
Empiri,
Agnosticism,
Tive
The opposite of objective, subjective means influenced by personal beliefs and experiences (11). An objective survey evaluating the effectiveness of a new medication might record changes in participants' blood pressure or days absent from work. A subjective survey evaluating the same medication might interview participants to ask them how they feel, what they remember, etc.
information influenced by personal feelings or biases
Individual and internal. Having to do with one's own experience and interpretation of that experience. See also: objective.
An interpretation of probability that maintains that a probability quantifies an aspect of one's mental state. cf. objective.
Of or pertaining to a subject.
Especially, pertaining to, or derived from, one's own consciousness, in distinction from external observation; ralating to the mind, or intellectual world, in distinction from the outward or material excessively occupied with, or brooding over, one's own internal states.
Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer.
Produced by the mind and determined by the thoughts or temperament of the subject.
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