Science has always been based on subjective experiences of scientists,
including their perceptions, choices, and values, and the bias toward
quantifiable, objective data has been a preference in, and not an intrinsic
quality of, scientific inquiry. Science has been constructed, partly, on
the basis of scientists' shared subjective experiences and epistemological
assumptions; thus, the difference between the objectivity of so-called
objective and subjective data is one of degree rather than of
kind. -- Ronald J. Pekala and Etzel Cardena
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