Objectivity

[Satya]

How do you tell the difference between objectivity and intellectualizing?

If someone claims they are being objective, then they are intellectualizing.

The desire to be objective in interpretation, is in itself, a bias. The reason why this is, is because a person who is trying to be objective when they are making an interpretation will find they are forced to dismiss anything in their interpretation that they perceive could be an emotional distortion of the observations. This creates a filtered perception, based on their subjective belief of how their emotions may be biasing their interpretation. As their unfiltered perception could in fact be the correct one, this act of attempting to be objective could lead them to forming a nonobjective answer.

Objectivity comes from simply stating what is observable without including any interpretation of it. That can only be done with measured quantitative information and verbatim qualitative information. Once you begin making interpretations of that information, the objective thing to do is admit that you are no longer capable of being objective.