This-essay is a8102261.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 ========================================================== %OBJECTIVITY AS EXCLUSION OF FEED-BACK 810226 What is the essence of objectivity and how should scientists feel towards and treat scientists who behave non-objectively? Does objectivity involve the transcendence of all bias, or the choice of particular kinds of bias? Is objectivity characterized by what it affirms, or by what it excludes? Does objectivity have to do with drawing conclusions, or with making choices and decisions? Does objectivity have to do with what kinds of motivation are respected---and with motivations which yields personal pleasure being suspect? Realities which are private realities are regarded as non-objective. Thus intimate personal relationships can not be objectively studied without the sacrifice of the private aspects of the relationships. Some people regard objective realities as the only realities, and thus private relationships are not real. Yet such people include among them some people who strongly object to private relationships as improper---in spite of the fact that by their criteria that to which they are objecting can not be real. Perhaps the classification of "unreal" is a sign of fear; an immature way of coping with realities which a person does not know how to relate to. Perhaps objectivity pertains to ways of coping with personal relationships with which one is uncomfortable--- because of the strong feelings associated with the associated feed-back. If one is uncomfortable with strong feelings---one way to cope is to minimize feelings, by minimizing the kinds of feed-back which generate such disturbing feelings. In the name of objectivity one may seek to minimize the role of feelings in choices, decisions and drawing conclusions---pretending that by so doing one is minimizing bias. Thus objectivity may be characterized as much by what is excluded, as by what is affirmed. It may be helpful to watch the behavior of objectivists towards their own kind of people who call the exclusivity of their kind of people into question. Such behavior may reveal the extent to which objectivists form a collusions which is dedicated to exclusive values rooted in the fear of affection, feeling, emotions, etc. (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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