Week 8!

I've created a couple of surveys in our Blackboard site to test the intra-subjectivity of your responses to closely-similar versions of the same work. Take these by March 1st. A favorite thesis of mine is that agreement increases when attention is focused on the same "thing". So many times we think we are talking about the same thing, and yet we are not. Make sure that we are focusing on a key feature -- then agreement seems to follow.

Agreement, of course, does not prove the objectivity of aesthetic features (for example), but it certainly diminishes the sense of utter subjectivity - the feeling that we often get when we confront aesthetic issues for the first time.