See the video at http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=448476978503521 Testing Paradigms and Assumptions Against Empirical Evidence Neither normative nor descriptive modeling, as currently constituted, can achieve scientific objectivity. Within the statistical paradigm of quantitative & qualitative research, assumptions, values, & beliefs are not rigorously corresponded to empirical systems. Conversions of meaning to numbers and numbers to meaning rely on social constructions, not empirical evidence. This creates subjectivity in computations. Only the linguistic rigor of basic math can re-establish computational legitimacy.