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The observer’s prejudices influence towards the people she/he is observing.

There is also an idea of observer-independent (mountain) versus observer-relative (Google, money), which should be distinguished when arguing about [[thoughts/Epistemology|epistemology]] or [[thoughts/Ontology|ontology]]

> \[!tip\] distinction
>
> syntax is observer-relative, whereas semantics is observer-independent, therefore syntax is not semantic.

## Robert Rosenthal

paper: _The effect of experimenter bias on the performance of the albino rat_

## Operant conditioning

Where behaviours are modified through the associations of stimuli with reinforcement or punishment. Thus, operants, or behaviours affected by the environment, are conditioned to happen more or less often based on the environmental consequence of the behaviour.