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
One must not forget the personal equation which enters into even accurate instrumental recording in medicine and surgery.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
The personal factor, the personal equation counts immensely.
From Letters from a Father to His Son Entering College by Charles Franklin Thwing
In order that the personal equation may be allowed for, the present writer begs to affirm that he writes as a sympathetic student though not an adherent.
From Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. by J. Arthur Hill
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