All people at all times perform observation, analysis, and interpretation.

This occurres at various levels of awareness and deliberation.

The presence and effects of bias can not be overestimated, and there are deep considerations of insurmountable subjectivity (epistemology).

Strong divisions regarding what constitutes valid and verified data (positivism and anti positivism) create fundamental dilemmas, potentially allowing or denying what is a either valid, or permanently flawed,human perspective, with paradigm implications regarding the process of being human and potentially invalidating the most important interpretations of the human experience (i.e. there is no God).

People are constantly making interventions by asking questions.

No different than a Social Scientist.

The process is always the SAME…people draw conclusions.

The difference is in the quality of the Process, that may involve complicated testing, reading, collaborating, etc.  Again- the Spirit of the Process is the Morality

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Science is deliberate, organized, and documented O/A/I, which attempts to perform outside of (human)  bias.

It is an active process in which the observer tries to understand the observed as it is, not as it is to the observer (unless that is the objective).

Science is defined through its desire and attempts to understand deductively not as a search for support for opinions derived outside the scientific process.

This represents the Ethic and Morality of Science.  The Scientific Method is an attempt to replace traditional interpretations of reality.

The only difference in people then (who are all performing Observation/Analysis/Interpretation), is in the integrity of the process, in the degree to which the individual attempted to investigate and learn and gather information, and to accept the conclusion regardless of personal preference.

It becomes then less/not important “who is right”, but the extent to which one engaged in her O/A/I, the spirit of scientific morality.

How hard did you try, what measures did you go to, to produce your Assessment?

It’s respect for the process; respect for the social scientists regardless of what you think of their final Assessment(s).

This is the starting point of Moral Inquiry

“I can’t explain how it happened; I only know that it did”

Deanna Troy, The Next Generation