personal equation
Americannoun
noun
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the variation or error in observation or judgment caused by individual characteristics
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the allowance made for such variation
Etymology
Origin of personal equation
First recorded in 1835–45
Example Sentences
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There are experimentalists, like Picasso, and those who, like Braque, discover their personal equation and go on repeating it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Relations between the U.S. and Europe are complicated by the personal equation.
From Time Magazine Archive
In an analysis of this character the personal equation must have a secondary place.
From Final Proof or the Value of Evidence by R. Ottolengui
Certain psychological problems belong to the problems of other sciences, as, for example, that of the personal equation belongs to astronomy or that of color vision to the theory of light.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
Her husband had the wisdom to recognise that; although his own happiness was at stake, the matter was beyond the restricted sphere of the personal equation.
From Mrs. Fitz by J. C. Snaith
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