personal equation
the tendency to personal bias that accounts for variation in interpretation or approach and for which allowance must be made.
Origin of personal equation
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How to use personal equation in a sentence
Above and beyond all these considerations, the personal equation comes in, sometimes very powerfully.
The Building of a Book | VariousIndeed, one would be doing no great violence to language who defined this quality as the “personal equation” of a work.
Talks on Writing English | Arlo BatesOther and better men have noted the damage that the personal equation does to music, and some of them have even sought ways out.
Damn! | Henry Louis MenckenThey work out these things in the personal equation largely.
The Land of Little Rain | Mary AustinSuch prejudices as our history has encouraged in us must be recognized, and computed in our personal equation.
The Psychology of Nations | G.E. Partridge
British Dictionary definitions for personal equation
the variation or error in observation or judgment caused by individual characteristics
the allowance made for such variation
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