IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/ajagec/v50y1968i4p809-814..html
   My bibliography  Save this article

On Scientific Objectivity

Author

Listed:
  • Emery N. Castle

Abstract

The research process is never devoid of value judgments. Nevertheless, motivation of the researcher does not necessarily render work unobjective in a scientific sense. Threats to scientific objectivity include the difficulty of changing a publicly expressed viewpoint, a vested interest in a particular theory, the desire to avoid controversy, and the desire for financial gain. The researcher must be careful, however, to avoid equating his own views with the "public interest" and condemning those with opposing views as lacking scientific objectivity.

Suggested Citation

  • Emery N. Castle, 1968. "On Scientific Objectivity," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 50(4), pages 809-814.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:ajagec:v:50:y:1968:i:4:p:809-814.
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2307/1237620
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Breimyer, Harold F., 1969. "An Appraisal Of The Market For Agricultural Economists - - Structure And Performance," Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, Southern Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 1, pages 1-6, December.
    2. Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich, 2012. "The Caldwellian Methodological Pluralism: Wishful Thoughts and Personal Tendencies," MPRA Paper 44656, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 28 Feb 2013.
    3. Conklin, Frank S., 1970. "Environmental Quality Problems: A Case Study of Field Burning in the Willamette Valley," WAEA/ WFEA Conference Archive (1929-1995) 323661, Western Agricultural Economics Association.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oup:ajagec:v:50:y:1968:i:4:p:809-814.. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Oxford University Press (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aaeaaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.