subjectivity

Examples of subjectivity in the following topics:

• Boundless Subjects and Alignments

  • This can be understood in terms of Boundless subjects and their division into the Boundless textbook associated with the subject and the alignments created from that textbook.
  • Each subject has a single official Boundless textbook, alignments to educators' syllabi, and community-contributed books that fall under that subject.
  • The Boundless textbook for a given subject (say, Boundless Chemistry) includes all the Boundless-created concepts on that subject, organized into chapters and sections.
  • Modules can also be removed from the book and added from other subjects.
  • Differentiate between Boundless subjects, the Boundless textbook for a given subject, and alignments

• Declining Pronouns: Subjects and Objects

• Boundless Subjects and Alignments

• Subject and Predicate

• Subject

• Statistical Literacy

  • For the first two years of the study, researchers will follow the subjects with scans and memory tests.
  • The data could be analyzed as a between-subjects design or as a within-subjects design.
  • For a between-subjects design, the subjects in the different conditions would be compared after two years.
  • For a within-subjects design, the change in subjects' scores in the different conditions would be compared.

• Between- and Within-Subjects Factors

  • When different subjects are used for the levels of a factor, the factor is called a between-subjects factoror a between-subjects variable.
  • The term "between subjects" reflects the fact that comparisons are between different groups of subjects.
  • Therefore there was only one group of subjects, and comparisons were not between different groups of subjects but between conditions within the same subjects.
  • When the same subjects are used for the levels of a factor, the factor is called a within-subjects factor or a within-subjects variable.
  • Within-subjects variables are sometimes referred to as repeated-measures variables since there are repeated measurements of the same subjects.

• Subject-Verb Agreement

  • "Person" is a way of saying who the subject is.
  • Subject-verb agreement can become a little more complicated when the subject is very long and complex.
  • Compound subjects (two subjects joined by a conjunction) take plural verbs if they are joined by "and."
  • When a positive subject and a negative subject are compounded and have different numbers, the verb should agree with the positive subject.
  • [The subject bags is a plural noun, so the verb were is also plural to agree with the subject.]

• Experimental Designs

  • In a between-subjects design, the various experimental treatments are given to different groups of subjects.
  • A within-subjects design differs from a between-subjects design in that the same subjects perform at all levels of the independent variable.
  • In these cases, it is usually better to use a between-subjects design than a within-subjects design.
  • This typically gives within-subjects designs considerably more power than between-subjects designs.
  • Designs can contain combinations of between-subject and within-subject variables.

• Making Subject and Verbs Agree

  • It is important to make sure that verbs agree with their subjects in person and number.
  • Subject-verb agreement assures that verbs match their subjects in case and number.
  • To assure this, writers need to consider whether the subject of her sentence is singular or plural, and whether the subject is first-person, second-person, or third-person.
  • If a sentence has a compound subject, you should use a plural verb even if all the components of the subject are singular nouns.
  • Recognize subject-verb agreement by paying careful attention to the number and case of the sentence subject.