However, through the clear eyes of objectivity, the Challengers' Debate only had one clear victor.
But as a 30-year veteran of MI5, Parker is unlikely to consider himself the high priest of objectivity in any debate about surveillance and privacy.
In highlighting a range of civil society sources to support his claims, and inviting closer scrutiny from his foreign critics, he injected a degree of objectivity into the debate that Georgian politics has lacked.
This is particularly pertinent since Ricroch et al. state, with reference to their own finding from an "unbiased stakeholder consultation" [11]: "for all stakeholders, raising the objectivity of the debate on GMOs is the most important request" (p. 10).
Medical journals accept drug ads, while their cadre of peer reviewers all share the same medical philosophy, so where's scientific objectivity or health debate?
The New Republic publicly asked whether Wallace possessed the necessary objectivity to moderate the debate; the anchor, son of 60 Minutes anchor Mike Wallace, said in an interview on his network that only he, his producer and his researcher were prepping for his coverage.
It follows how the objectivity of numbers is debated, stabilised or disrupted, as differing appeals to realism and accuracy are advanced in the context of different modes of intervention and practical aims.
One of the more important debates concerning objectivity in the social sciences concerns the role value judgments play and, importantly, whether value-laden research entails claims about the desirability of actions.
Another issue causing confusion in defining weak signals is the debate on their objectivity versus subjectivity; or the essentialist or deterministic versus the constructivist perspective [2, 3, 7].
