"Need," the ad instructs, "is a very subjective word".
In trying to be civil (a very subjective word) they are allowing themselves to be steamrolled.
But sometimes plastic surgery doesn't make a person look younger or more beautiful (an arguably subjective word).
The results show that concept familiarity, AoA, concept agreement, name agreement, and image agreement are significant predictors of naming latencies, whereas subjective word frequency is not a reliable determinant.
Yet, if you were to invoke this highly subjective word to describe one evening in the middle of Manhattan island, in the middle of summer, in earshot of the expectant tunings of the instruments, you could do a lot worse than late Tuesday.
None of the other four variables, including subjective word frequency, was significant.
Subjective word frequency based on participants' own ratings has also been used as a proxy for word frequency [9], [22], [23].
Instead of objective word frequency (written or spoken), Lachman, Shaffer and Hennrikus [21] used subjective word frequency and observed both AoA and frequency effects in picture naming task.
The correlation between subjective word frequency and objective word frequency (written or spoken) has been high, though not perfect [22], [23].
We followed the procedures and instructions by Alario and Ferrand [31] except for subjective word frequency for which we used the instructions from Morrison et al. [9].
