SIGIA-L Mail Archives: Re: SIGIA-L: testing yourself
Re: SIGIA-L: testing yourself
From: Paola Kathuria (paola_at_limitless.co.uk)
Date: Mon Apr 23 2001 - 13:39:03 EDT
AD wrote:
> The major problem with testing yourself comes from concerns with
> objectivity. Despite how much we try, as humans we are not well equipped
to
> be unbiased, rational and detached when we have an investment in the
> process.
A devil's advocate question: In academic research, if you design
an experiment, can you also be one of the experimenters?
I would think that biases would be greater in this situation
since the researcher often can't help but know which test group
a given subject is in.
I would think that the results from an experiment or study
are only as reliable as how well it was designed and conducted.
Paola
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