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Objectivity - Checkup

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The Objectivity Model challenges you to be curious and critical in understanding and analysis phases of complex innovation projects. Critical of studies, slogans, and statements of what is supposedly “objectively true.”

Criticism of objectivity is carried out by radical forward thinkers who conclude that scientific objectivity is an ideological construction.

Their starting point was the assumption that whoever strives for objective knowledge tries to describe the world “as it really is” – without pursuing political or economic interests. Accordingly, research results would also have to be free from claims to power and the social conditions under which they were created.

Among others, philosopher Donna Haraway believes this assumption is impossible. If one follows the critics of objectivity, the description of the world is never value-free. As an example, the authors Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler cite depictions of prehistoric men: “Even children’s books pass on the image of men hunting mammoths. More unspectacular ways of obtaining food are neglected. In fact, these depictions were created in the 19th century, when hunting was prestigious. The by no means neutral-objective image served to strengthen the power position of the family breadwinner and warrior.

To doubt objectivity is not to ask what is right or wrong. Rather, the question of true or untrue should be posed differently: “What counts as true?” and “Who benefits?” Where the claim is made of “truth,” then, the question should be asked, “What are the conditions under which this truth is produced?”

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