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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.
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information influenced by personal feelings or biases
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Individual and internal. Having to do with one's own experience and interpretation of that experience. See also: objective.
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An interpretation of probability that maintains that a probability quantifies an aspect of one's mental state. cf.  objective.
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Of or pertaining to a subject.
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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.
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Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer.
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Produced by the mind and determined by the thoughts or temperament of the subject.
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