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<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9223708" data-attributes="member: 7023840">There are two proper uses of objective, neither of you used in the example sentence (&quot;objectively better&quot;).First, you can use in the sense of attempting to achieve neutrality- to try and view something in an unbiased way. A judge or a journalist might strive to be objective (not influenced by their own personal opinions). Whether they can achieve that is debatable, but it's a laudable goal.The second use is when you can use an outside referent. For example, if you are measuring heat, you can say that Object A at 300 degrees kelvin is objectively hotter than Object B at 250 degrees kelvin.Protip- if you're unable to come up with a common agreed-upon unit to measure the two things, you cannot compare them objectively. In addition, any use of the term with &quot;better&quot; or &quot;worse&quot; (objectively better or objectively worse) will always be incorrect.If you can come up with an outside referent for you claim that something is &quot;easiest&quot; or &quot;better&quot; then you're welcome to it. Preferable in metric units. You're welcome.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 9223708, member: 7023840"] There are two proper uses of objective, neither of you used in the example sentence ("[I]objectively better"[/I]). First, you can use in the sense of attempting to achieve neutrality- to try and view something in an unbiased way. A judge or a journalist might strive to be objective (not influenced by their own personal opinions). Whether they can achieve that is debatable, but it's a laudable goal. The second use is when you can use an outside referent. For example, if you are measuring heat, you can say that Object A at 300 degrees kelvin is objectively hotter than Object B at 250 degrees kelvin. Protip- if you're unable to come up with a common agreed-upon unit to measure the two things, you cannot compare them objectively. In addition, any use of the term with "better" or "worse" ([I]objectively better [/I]or [I]objectively worse[/I]) will always be incorrect. If you can come up with an outside referent for you claim that something is "easiest" or "better" then you're welcome to it. Preferable in metric units. You're welcome. [/QUOTE]

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