0910G【Try Best】第二小组 issue157 by Stephy_t

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感谢帮我改作业的同学。我这次特别注意了例子的深入分析。但是语言组织得不好，说服力不强，读起来不舒服，欢迎意见建议。
Issue 157：There is no such thing as purely objective observation. All observation is subjective; it is always guided by the observer’s expectations or desires.

Observation—the basic tool for people to observe the world in any scientific and cultural field, plays one of the most important roles in human civilization. Is all observation subjective, as the author asserts? Doesn’t any purely objective observation exist? My answer does not completely cord with the author’s. Admittedly, observers’ expectations or desires reflects on the observation they made in some fields related to human culture such as art and music, while the observation in the scientific field is mostly pure objective. In my opinion, whether the observation is pure objective or takes subjective color should depend on which the knowledge field it in. I maintain my opinion by the following reasons.

In general, the observation is subjective in two aspects. One is that the observation itself made up by people’s subjective thoughts. For instance, when an observer collect information to the observation by a social survey, the questions in the survey are totally designed by the observer’s expectations, and the answers by various people with distinctive personal experience and previous knowledge are also sbujective. The second aspect is that observers in some professional fields have to take subjective altitude towards the observation, thus makes their observation inevitably subjective, which is explained in detail as follows.

Take the artist for a typical example, in the process of the observation for creating a painting, the artist firstly gets familiar with the subject by eye, interprets what he saw and felt in his mind by using his own understandings, and finally translates these understandings and feelings into real work. Any step in the process of observation is completely subjective, based on the artist’s life experience, altitude towards life, and personal desires etc. Also,different people could observe the same thing in a different scale due to the distinctive personalities.

For example, generally people think sunflower is the symbol of optimism. However, Vincent van Gogh in his spectacular work “the sunflower” used simulative yellow color which powerfully reflects the conflicts between desperations for his miserable living condition and strong aspiration for life. That’s the unique pessimistic translation of the optimistical sunflower make the work’s lasting value. What the art express is a mirror of van Gogh's personal experience and attitude to life. Similarly, the work made by the musician, composer, poet, writer, all people in fields related to human culture, inevitably reflects their subjective observation to the objective.

However, in science, without pure observation for recording exact data by using scientific instruments, any success in scientific research and any progress of human civilization are impossible. All scientific observation should base on the accurate objective calculation and also physical and chemical principle. In chemistry field, medicine products need the accurate proportion between elements, or the function maybe totally different; Buildings need the architecture provides the exact statistic which totally cords with the physical proper structure. Neither intended nor unintentional subjectivity is permitted in science observation. In the Soyuz 1 Rocket launch, if not the tiny decimal point counting mistake the disaster won’t happen. In the Sichuan earthquake in 2008 China, if not the reinforcing steel bar replaced by floor slab in school buildings in order to save money, most of the pupil’s lives won’t end up under the wreckage. When observation betrayed the physical rule and mixed within subjective desire, people have to pay for the subjectivity in scientific observation. At this point, pure observation without subjectivity exists and has to exist in scientific fields.

In sum, in the field related to human culture, such as art and music, observation is inevitably guided by the observers’ subjectivity. While in science, pure observation is the foundation of any scientific research, subjective desire and expectation will break the nature rule and bring people unpredictable disaster.