personal equation

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   variability attributable to individual differences

   Broadervariability

Questions about personal equation

What does personal equation mean?

personal equation means "variability attributable to individual differences".

Is personal equation a common word?

personal equation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.