Moreover, the fact that the subjects were not masked about the MPDS may influence the subjective response that was not taken into account.
But symbols, and subjective response to symbols, move people.
"A portrait is a work of art and, by definition, a subjective response, one person's view of another.
Instead, feeling colder seems to be a subjective response to the environment.
It was then the two developed their method, a ratings system designed to excise the subjective response -- that tricky gut impulse -- from the purchase equation.
For Anne Cohen DiPietro, curator of the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, Frederick Edwin Church's "Autumn" evokes a similarly subjective response.
But when the film came out I was fascinated: some people don't like it, but the people who do like it have a very personal response, or a very subjective response, to it.
The modest 61-minute video documentary "Afghan Stories" is a subjective response to world events by its maker, Taran Davies, an investment banker who resigned a week after Sept. 11 and left for Afghanistan a few weeks later.
It is a kind of blend of sculpture, performance and installation in which the viewer's subjective response is as much a part of the artwork as the placement of the words on the walls and windows.
And besides, what these writers are objecting to falls into the category of subjective response, which is, after all, most of what criticism is.
Changes in the manifold design could reduce the adverse subjective response.
