nothing is objective
Data is always an abstraction of reality based on underlying assumptions as to how to categorize the unstructured phenomena of the real world.
Clayton M. Christensen • Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
Off Kilter 178: Data Is An Agenda.
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the degree to which attention discourse is invested in a clear “subject” looking at an “object”: a binary relation that many of those other methods have challenged.
Dirt • Dirt: Disordered Attention
The issue with even this “trend” is that so much of cultural critique today remains observational.
Problematic considering the tiny narrative bubbles we’re each in.
Without layering any quantitative analysis into our stories, fads remain just reactions to reactions. Emptiness.
From the perspective of scientific visualization, the idea that machines allow us to see true has long been outmoded. In everyday discourse, however, there is a continuing tendency to characterize the objective as that which speaks for itself without the interference of human perception, interpretation, judgment, and so on.
Melanie Feinberg • The Myth of Objective Data
despite the undeniably consistent picture that we see across studies of scientific data collection, the desire to remove the human from the data in order to enhance objectivity remains very strong. Invariably, it seems like the ethical move.