WHEN SUBJECTIVE TESTING IS OBJECTIVE Using the methods of science we reduce phen

WHEN SUBJECTIVE TESTING IS OBJECTIVE

Using the methods of science we reduce phenomenon to something we can experience, and test. I don’t like that we describe these processes as apodictically certain. But it is irrational to state that I can use science to reduce something beyond experience to experience, so that I can interpret it, but on the other hand, suggest that sympathetic interpretation of incentives is less ‘scientific’. It’s just as scientific as anything else, because human cognitive biases are reasonably universal, and need to be INCLUDED in any such analysis of human behavior – not excluded from it. That’s not logical either.

(Excerpt from longer post.)