This-essay is a7708271.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %EXPERIMENT VS EXPERIMENTER 770827 An experiment as a whole process may with integrity affect the presumable objective and detached experimenter, so as to occasion essential changes therein. The experimental perspective of the experimenter may thereby be so radically changed as to constitute the most significant/meaningful result of the whole process. These changes in the experimenter may transcend any conceivable experimental/theoretical conclusions of the experimental process---totally calling into question the experimenter's presumptions of objectivity and detachment. A refusal to acknowledge the questions thereby raised---will block further understanding on the part of the experimenter, for meaningful participation in the understanding process is not possible without accepting the reality of and limiting implications of that participation. It is self contradictory to presume to participate in a process of gaining understanding, while denying the impact of the investigatory process upon that which is being studied, and denying the reciprocal impact of the process being studied upon the investigator. These observations are especially relevant to situations in which the experimenter is an essential feature of the process being studied---by playing a determinative role in occasioning the process and/or by being an active element in the process; the former being characteristic of the natural sciences and the latter characteristic of the social sciences. Often scientists fail to be aware of the dynamic interaction between their experiments and themselves: failing to perceive the ways in which they bias their experiments, and failing to consider some of the ways in which their experiments transform themselves unawares. People who design experiments can not understand the meaning of those experiments without examining in a profound way the presuppositions of the whole process--- starting with the presuppositions made in beginning the process of experimentation. Experimenters must learn to accept and understand how subject they are to the whole process which may well transcend them. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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