It is a trite remark that there is a large individual factor, a considerable "personal equation," in matters of taste, as in other matters.
By so doing we may reach a rough average recollection which shall at least be free from any individual error corresponding to that of personal equation in perception.
There is a "personal equation" in perception as in belief--an amount of erroneous deviation from the common average view of external things, which is the outcome of individual temperament and habits of mind.
If you have been doing your best to shoot well, and after some years still fail, endeavour to discover your "personal equation," and by correcting that you may succeed much better.
They have forgotten the part which, to borrow a term from astronomy, "personal equation" has played.
We sought, therefore, to formulate a classification in which the various groups should be so defined as to obviate the interference of personal equation in the work of applying it, hoping thus to achieve greater accuracy.
We have made repeated attempts to utilize various systems of classification which involve free play of personal equation in their application.
The "personal equation" which differentiates two observers is not confined to the tower of the astronomer.
So in social science there must be a personal equation too, and our object ought to be, in the ordinary affairs of life as well as in the higher duties of scientific action, to make our personal equation as small as possible.
In astronomy, for example, we find the value of the 'Personal Equation.
In this way it was hoped that the habit of each observer, his "personal equation" as it is called, could be determined beforehand, and allowed for as a correction when he came to observe the actual transit.
The troubles from "personal equation" have been much diminished by the photographic method, and certain peculiarities of the former method have been clearly exhibited by the comparison.
But there are also certain errors of a systematic character similar to those denoted by the term "personal equation," which has found its way into other walks of life.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "personal equation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
