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Subjective vs. Biased — What's the Difference?

Subjective vs. Biased — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Subjective and Biased

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Subjective

Dependent on or taking place in a person's mind rather than the external world
"The sensation of pain is a highly subjective experience that varies by culture as well as by individual temperament and situation" (John Hoberman).

Biased

Marked by or exhibiting bias; prejudiced
Gave a biased account of the trial.

Subjective

Based on a given person's experience, understanding, and feelings; personal or individual
Admitted he was making a highly subjective judgment.

Biased

Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.
The newspaper gave a biased account of the incident.

Subjective

(Psychology) Not caused by external stimuli.
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Biased

Angled at a slant.
The table had a biased edge.

Subjective

(Medicine) Of, relating to, or designating a symptom or complaint perceived by a patient.

Biased

(electrical engineering) On which an electrical bias is applied.

Subjective

Expressing or bringing into prominence the individuality of the artist or author.

Biased

(statistics) Exhibiting a systematic distortion of results due to a factor not allowed for in its derivation; skewed.

Subjective

(Grammar) Relating to or being the nominative case.

Biased

Simple past tense and past participle of bias
She biased them against him for no apparent reason.

Subjective

Relating to the real nature of something; essential.

Biased

Favoring one person or side over another;
A biased account of the trial
A decision that was partial to the defendant

Subjective

Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, not upon observation or reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.

Biased

Excessively devoted to one faction

Subjective

Pertaining to subjects as opposed to objects (A subject is one who perceives or is aware; an object is the thing perceived or the thing that the subject is aware of.)

Subjective

Resulting from or pertaining to personal mindsets or experience, arising from perceptive mental conditions within the brain and not necessarily or directly from external stimuli.

Subjective

Lacking in reality or substance.

Subjective

As used by Carl Jung, the innate worldview orientation of the introverted personality types.

Subjective

Experienced by a person mentally and not directly verifiable by others.

Subjective

Describing conjugation of a verb that indicates only the subject (agent), not indicating the object (patient) of the action. In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.

Subjective

Of or pertaining to a subject.

Subjective

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.

Subjective

Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer.

Subjective

Taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias;
A subjective judgment

Subjective

Of a mental act performed entirely within the mind;
A cognition is an immanent act of mind

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