Question

Prompt 2: Provide examples of:

• A subjective claim that people might call “a fact”
• An objective claim that people might call “an opinion”

Explain how mislabeling these claims could negatively impact the quality of a person’s thinking. You might try thinking of claims you could hear in a hospital. If a person has confused objective with subjective or fact with opinion, what is the solution?

Answer 1

A subjective statement is something that expresses an opinion, belief, or judgment on a topic for example, belief system. Some people believe that worshiping their god makes life easy for them and saves them from worse situations. Then Objective information or analysis is fact-based, measurable and observable. It could mean the analysis of a doctor for instance. For instance a person is on the death bed and his family believes that nothing would happen to him as they are praying to their god with all the energy and will. But the doctors make it clear it is hard to think about the survival at the moment. In those scenarios, people are confused what to do and whom to trust. So always follow the gut feeling as energy does not lie no matter what the situation is.