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Re:Why professors, pundits, and policy wonks misunderstand t... by AnimalMuppet on Friday August 12, 2016 @01:41PM (#12277395)
But intellectuals are supposed to be above that. They're supposed to be objective, or at least able to honestly see their bias. And they're failing at that.

By the way, if I understand correctly, this was the death blow to logical positivism. Michael Polanyi pointed out that logical positivism required objective observers, and all we had were human beings, who were never really objective.

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Re:Why professors, pundits, and policy wonks misunderstand t... by Aelinsaar on Friday August 12, 2016 @03:01PM (#12277966)
>But intellectuals are supposed to be above that. They're supposed to be objective, or at least able to honestly see their bias. And they're failing at that.

Really, no, absolutely not. The bias is assumed, that's why double-blind is the gold standard too. I'd argue that at its best, intellectualism is all about building a deeper awareness of our limitations and foibles, while developing systems to compensate for them.

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