This is http://www.essayz.com/a8811102.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %TRANSCEND SUBJECTIVE BIAS OBJECTIVE PARADIGM 881110 People may be trapped in perceptions which are biased because they have no basis for checking for subjective bias. Many objectively oriented people believe that the objective paradigm offers the only realistic check for the biases of unchecked subjectivity. Objectively oriented people are trapped in their own kind of bias which blinds them to their dependence upon essentially subjective experiences and upon their susceptibility to "objective" collusions within the community of scientists. The myth of objectivity is not free of bias. To give meaning and significance with integrity to inter personal relationships requires more than the myth of objectivity, or the biases of subjectivity which are uninformed by objective perspectives. People are not engaged in integrative behavior when they participate in games of mutual self deception wherein they believe that perfection is to be achieved by some pure and exclusive way of knowing, which is in some way "better" than the complementary ways of knowing. It is difficult for specialists to respect ways of knowing which point to the limitations of the powers of the specialists. This is especially true when the specialists are trapped in the myth of objectivity. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================