[Base-level bias must exist in social science experiments because the researcher defines the thought experiment_3a that stimulates a response in the subject_1a.

The response (the upwelling of potential in the subject_1a plus the potential of the survey to impose constraints_1b) always conforms to the stimulus (the normal contexts_3a&3b that the event occurs in).

This also explains why many social scientists rely on deception. Deception has the same character as bias.   All experiments exhibit ‘base-level deception.]

Summary of text [comment] pages 87 and 88

[The psychologist may think that “he” is measuring my mental potential_1a as if it were an actuality. After all, on the situation level, the content level nested form is packaged as the possibility of something that the subject might choose_1b.

The psychologist may not imagine that “he” is measuring the hidden features in the actuality in the thought experiment where ‘I choose something’.]

[The only other actuality is ‘my choice_2b’.

This item can legitimately be observed and measured because it belongs to the realm of actuality twice, as situation and as element in a nested form.

Again, the researcher is concealed in the way that the survey can be marked.

For example, the researcher may have already limited possibility_1b to a choice from 1 to 5.]

Summary of text [comment] pages 87 and 88

[In social science survey experiments, the bait is the thought experiement_3a itself. The choice in the survey is the catch.

The bait inspires an upwelling in ‘the potential in me (the subject in the investigation)_1a’. That upwelling tries to ‘deal with’ the bait.

Something_2a emerges from and situates that upwelling.

Something_2a may be an answer. But, that answer may not fit a survey question where the respondent gives a number between 1 and 5_1b. Something_2a depends on the thought experiment_3a calling it into being. My choice_2b depends on the situation_b.]

[The ‘fisherman_3c’ is the perspective level.

The ‘hook_3a’ is the thought experiment.

Yes, even psychologists are ‘fishers of ‘men”.

Yet, they know not what they do.]

[Sensible construction is characteristic of the social sciences.

In sensible construction, the perspective level is never challenged (unless, of course, something breaks).]

[The subject is not aware of the experimentalist’s perspective.

Often, neither is the investigator.

This lack of awareness does not fit the label ‘bias’.

All surveys share the same relational structure. Even a researcher who carefully tries to eliminate biases cannot eliminate this feature.]

Summary of text [comment] pages 86 and 87

[How is the psychological experiment, say a survey, like fishing?

Every something_2a, that emerges from and situates the potential of the subject under investigation_1b, has a hook to a thought experiment_3a. That thought experiment_3a reflects a perspective_c.]