…and what else? Or who else – disciplines with similar problems...
Moving from objective data to subjective interpretation and narration is a problem we share with history – they look back, and we look forward, but we are both telling stories.
At any point where researchers transform a collection of data into narrative via interpretation, the subjective-objective dilemma arises – but it is exponentially more problematic in FS, where data are sketchy at best, and nonexistent at worst.