Why is objectivity important when observing children?
The problem with observation is that it is subjective i.e. everyone has a different view point, based on their own personal experience. With obervation you would need to set a scale up and do a pilot of that scale before you could use the results. Basically perception is YOUR view of what you are seeing, your attitude is based around YOUR attitudes/ feelings towards whatever you are viewing e.g. I disagree with fox hunting so my attitude is that it would be violent and disgusting, other people view it differently. You have grown up with your own set of values of beliefs i.e. you could be law abiding you could not, you could believe in god, you could be an athesit, these are your vales and beliefs.
It’s not important if you want tainted observations and views. If you want to have reliable results though you need to be objective. You can’t take their parents, neighborhood, skin color, etc into consideration because it skews the results. If you notice that the child is white, asian, etc that’s okay. As long as you don’t take the skin color and turn it into stereotypes about the child or their upbringing. Objectivity leads to reliable results (results that you can compare to any other results from other studies that other persons do). I guess it’s the most important factor in being able to compare results from various observations (since one person cannot observe all children, you need objectivity to compare them… Then there not differently analyzed or observed based on the person observing).
