Mr Hobby said: "A lot of us assumed that there was more objectivity to the grades people get.
"We so value optimism and happiness and all these positive traits, which are themselves abstractions, that we get caught by surprise and can't deal with their opposite," says Holiday. "If we were more middle of the road, things would be better and we'd be able to take advantage of the things that happen to us because there's more objectivity".
That said, its objectivity might be more believable if the film was not produced by the wife of Norman Foster, Elena Ochoa.
The BBC, too, without compromising its objectivity, could be more critical in its presentation of the information (or "information") pouring out of Moscow.
The once-forgotten quality of empathy has been re-discovered as a desirable quality in doctors, and although it has been suggested that there are situations where objectivity may be more important [ 3, 4], empathy has been shown to be associated with improved patient satisfaction and better clinical outcomes [ 5– 8].
In this complicated and contested terrain, it is useful to examine the methodologies of science and to consider ways that, without compromising integrity and objectivity, research can be more or less helpful to those who would act with precaution.
"Yet nothing can be more enlightening than to gain precisely that degree of objectivity and perspective with which we view savage peoples".
Reports of experiences are more descriptive, allowing for more objectivity.
Ailes and Murdoch's version of objectivity was more of a corrective than a pledge of nonbias.
