observer's paradox
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.16 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The situation in which a phenomenon being observed for study is unintentionally influenced by the presence of the observer.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "These conditions have served to diminish what is known as the observer’s paradox[…], so that the data this exploration draws on can be regarded as naturally occurring communication, i.e. as data “that would have occurred regardless of the investigator’s interventions or research aspirations”[…]."