Quote of the week #32 – Tobias Ziegler on perceptions of ideological bias in research
February 24, 2009
“If the findings are genuinely affected by ideological bias, point to the evidence of ideological contamination in the study. We need to avoid this natural tendency to point to the researcher just because the findings don’t fit with what we believe.”
(Tobias Ziegler, 2009)
Indeed. Point to the evidence of ideological contamination in the study. Neither “Gravy train”, “Kool-Aid” and socialist conspiracy theories, nor unfalsifiable psychological theories of bias, constitute a rebuttal of research.
The whole post is worth your reading, so I suggest you do!
~ Bruce
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Well said.
Feminist thinking has some very interesting things to say about research, objectivity etc. I’ll get the links for you tomorrow and post them up.
I may steal this for my Friday Intellectual Spot (or should that be in my case “Intellectual”?) — a really good find, Bruce.
I think ppl should redirect their kudos to TZ.