Subjectivity

Subjectivity is generally defined as a judgment based on individual personal impressions and feelings or opinions rather than external facts.

The observer

Subjective measurements, observations and experiences depend on the observer who observes the thing or the jury which rates it. Something is objective if there is a jury necessary for the measurement:

• subjective: if there is a jury somewhere, i.e. a group of people which has to decide if s.th. is good or bad. The common unit to measure subjective things are points or votes.

• objective: if it can be measure by a measure or unit. Things are measure in this unit.

The dimension

• subjective: internal pleasure/displeasure dimension which spans and colors all subjective feelings

• objective: external spatial or physical dimension which can be measured in a certain physical unit