Connor Burri, Patrick O’Mullan, Matthew Spofford, Alexander Young Each profession is equipped with a set of knowledge and their own view of objectivity. To truly understand objectivity, we must understand the connection between objectivity and the history of professional fields. Each interpretation of objectivity has developed an expert community with separate lenses. That… Read more Op-Ed: The Lenses of Objectivity
Gabriel Dudlicek, Phillip Durgin, Angela Ferro, Adam Goldsmith Objectivity is defined as a lack of bias or an accurate representation of reality. Under the assumption all knowledge is “situated” and therefore dependent on context, it is impossible or very difficult to have absolute truth. We cannot be confident that any knowledge is objective since it… Read more Objectivity: A Subjective Social Construct
By Colin Reynolds, Andrew Yatsuhashi, and Dominic Ferro *all authors contributed equally to this work* Science, with its strict rules and calculations, is meant to be impersonal and unbiased. On the contrary, the basic definition of objectivity reveals that there is no such thing as impersonal or unbiased science. While scientists have made great strides… Read more Is Science truly Unbiased and Impersonal?