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Racial and demographic factors influence one's point-of-view and 2. Feminism is a significant social construct. A study of the effects of a drug upon depression begins with the presumption that depression is a mental illness in need of treating. There is no purely objective research.
Q3. Lastly, do you think there is one research method or approach that lends itself to being more objective? Why or why not?
While complete objectivity may be impossible, certain forms of research are more blatantly subjective. Qualitative research does not have the rigor of the scientific method in the sense that it lacks a control group and often a method of gathering data that can be statistically analyzed. It is based upon interviews, observations, and the subjective perceptions of the researcher. In some forms of qualitative research, the researcher is actually an active participant in the activities, not simply an observer. This often changes the...
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Ultimately, quantitative research studies are likely to be more objective, followed by qualitative studies such as the case study method or scientific realistic ethnographies, in which the researcher maintains his or her distance from the subject. Of course, the data is still filtered through the researcher's perceptual lens but there is an attempt to view how the subjects relate to one another without the injection of the researcher in to the dynamic. Yet no research method is purely objective, and every researcher, regardless of method, must be acutely self-conscious of this and end his or her study with a discussion of the study's limits as well as its findings.
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