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Objective Versus Subjective: Kudzu Terminology

This excerpt was created in the absence of an abstract.

Kudzu, the ubiquitous weed of the southern United States, may be an immigrant to America, but it is a hardy immigrant almost immune to eradication. Cut it back, and it grows again; cut it again, and it's back again. Even natural enemies are destroyed by kudzu's capacity to propagate. Kudzu is to weeds what Jason (of "Friday the 13th" fame) is to campers and other unsuspecting victims—impossible to kill. Unfortunately, kudzu and Jason have a kindred analog in physical therapy: Our willingness to misuse the terms objective and subjective. These terms live in a malevolent state, as invincible as Jason in his hockey mask. Consider this Note one more attempt to cut back the kudzu and send Jason to a watery demise.

Subjective and objective have become as value laden as any terms one hears in clinical practice or research....

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