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Owed Two A Spell Chequer

Eye halve a spelling chequer,

it came with my pea sea.

It plainly marques, four my revue,

miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word

and weight four it two say,

Weather eye am wrong oar write

it shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid,

it nose bee fore two long.

And eye can put the error rite

it's rare lea ever wrong

Eye have run this poem threw it,

I am shore your pleased two no.

Its letter perfect awl the weigh,

my chequer tolled me sew

Objectivity in observations

I have recently had to undertake a number of observations on young children. We were told that while doing such a study one must remain objective, in other words we must separate ourselves from what we see and not be influenced by emotions or what we think is happening. We must only record what we 'know' is happening.It is unbelievably hard to do this as I will explain by the hypothetical observation below

Observation, draft 1

In the book corner there sat two children named Joe and Jack. Joe was sitting reading a book when all of sudden Jack got angry with him and punched him in the nose with his right fist, Joe started crying hysterically and red blood poured from his nose.


Draft 1 with a conversation between me and my tutor (my tutors words are in pink)

In the book corner there sat two children named Joe and Jack. Joe was sitting reading
How do you know he was reading?
A book when all of sudden Jack got angry
How do you know he was angry? He might just have wanted to remodel Joe's face a bit
with him and punched
he might not have punched him, he could have a nervous twitch
him in the nose with his right fist. Joe started crying
he could have been laughing
hysterically
and he might normally cry robustly
and red
colours are subjective
Blood
it could have been paint
poured from his nose
it might not have been his nose


Observation draft 2

In the book corner sat two children named Jack and Joe. Joe was sitting with a book partially covering his face. Jack’s arm went back in a 40˚ angle and then swung forward at a rate of 40 mph and landed upon the nose that was attached to Joe’s face. Out of the nose came a liquid, out of his eyes came another liquid and out of his mouth came a noise

Draft 2 with a conversation between me (in blue) and my tutor (in pink)

In the book corner
A lot of book corners aren’t actually in the corner
sat two children
They might not be children, they could be adults come to spy on you
People then?
they could be aliens,
living creatures?
Or robots
O.k. I’ll forget that sentence
named Jack and Joe.
Their names are subjective, because you needed to change them to ensure confidentiality, you could think Jack is a naughty sounding name.
Joe was sitting
Could be crouching, kneeling,
with a book
It might just look like a book to you
partially covering his face.
From where you were sitting
Jack’s arm went back
Someone else might call that forwards
in a 40˚ angle
measurements are never accurate
and then swung
Swung??
forward at a rate of 40 mph
As before
and landed upon the nose that was attached to Joe’s face.
It could be an optical illusion
Out of the nose came a liquid, out of his eyes came another liquid and out
of his mouth came a noise
Liquid and sounds are soooo subjective, how do you know that noise came from his mouth.

I know you think I’m being picky about this objectivity business, but what is recommended for this child depends upon it being accurate and detached from what people your own personal feelings.
Um o.k.

Draft 3
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My point is that as sinful human beings everything we write, say, think or see is influenced by who we are and it is therefore impossible to write a truly objective observation. So at what point does an observation become 'objective' by the tutors estimation.