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personal equation
noun
- the tendency to personal bias that accounts for variation in interpretation or approach and for which allowance must be made.
personal equation
noun
- the variation or error in observation or judgment caused by individual characteristics
- the allowance made for such variation
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Word History and Origins
Origin of personal equation1
First recorded in 1835–45
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Example Sentences
Above and beyond all these considerations, the personal equation comes in, sometimes very powerfully.
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Indeed, one would be doing no great violence to language who defined this quality as the “personal equation” of a work.
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Other and better men have noted the damage that the personal equation does to music, and some of them have even sought ways out.
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They work out these things in the personal equation largely.
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Such prejudices as our history has encouraged in us must be recognized, and computed in our personal equation.
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