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Do you understand the difference between accuracy and precision?Suppose you're framing a wall. Which is more important - to have all the studs exactly the right length? Or to have all the studs exactly the same length?If one is an inch too long, there's going to be a problem - but if all of them are a sixteenth of an inch too short, no problem."Objectivity" in science has more to do with everybody getting the same result than with anybody getting the "right" result.

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Yes. "Objective" meaning that it doesn't matter who takes the measurement.A Sikh or a Satanist or somebody with any other "world view" has to be able to get the same result or it isn't a valid scientific result.That's why you're wrong when you claim that data is subjective. It doesn't matter who the subject is. It only matters what the object is.Edited by Ringo, : Spelling and conjugation.

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First, the person getting the different result has to explain why the result is different - i.e. why the new result is better than the old result, why the old method was flawed, etc.Then, other people have to replicate the new result before it can be accepted as valid.The result is not subjective because it doesn't matter who does the experiment. The result can be altered by the method but not by the experimenter's beliefs.

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Neither the new result nor the old result is subjective if they were obtained objectively.Don't confuse "objective" with "absolute". That's where precision vs accuracy comes in.An objective result is precise - i.e. all of the measurements agree. If better equipment makes more precise measurements available, that doesn't make the less precise measurements less objective.The result doesn't have to be highly accurate - i.e. it doesn't have to be absolute. It only has to be replicable to be objective.

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"Subjective" applies to the people doing the measurement, not to the equipment they use.If different people using the same equipment get the same result, the result is objective. If different people using different equipment get the same result, the result is still objective.If different people using the same equipment get different results, the results are subjective. And if different people using different equipment get different results, the results are subjective. You still don't seem to be understanding the difference between accuracy and precision. Exactness (accuracy) is irrelevant.If the results are precise - i.e. if everybody gets the same result - they are objective.(This is all very basic stuff, but if you really don't understand it, we should take it somewhere where it's on topic.)

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riVeRraT gave an example of deer returning to Staten Island. Schraf pointed out that that anecdote doesn't constitute scientific data. riVeRraT replied that "everything is subjective" and I have been trying to point out the difference between objectivity and subjectivity.That's how we got here - not saying we "should" be here. I think you and Wikipedia and I are all saying essentially the same thing - I'm just saying it more clearly.

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Once again, you're confusing "objective" with "exact". It's the possibility of being wrong that makes it objective. Each subjective person believes he is right. It is only when his results are compared to other people's results that an objective result can be compiled. No they are not. The whole idea of objectivity is to eliminate the differences in how we view things and figure things out.

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