The Importance of Human Subjectivity in Investigations

In order to carry out an investigation you've got to assume a semi transcendent state for the investigator. He has got to transcend the stuff that he is looking at. Otherwise he is simply a he simply blends with what he's investigating, and you don't end up with any results at all. Robert benchley described his biology course in college in the following terms: i spent the entire term drawing the reflection of my own eyelash as it was projected by the microscope on to the slide. A total catastrophe. What happened here? What happened was that benchley lost the distin on between himself as the observer and what was being observed.