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Article Excerpt
Mr. Hugh J. Totten, JD, argues convincingly that The Appraisal Journal should adopt the rigor of scientific journals and not follow the subjectivity of artistic judgment (Spring 2008). He states,
Novel or not, a manuscript must be subjected to testing prior to publication. The risk is far too great that an untested theory will find its way into a publication and will thereafter be presented to the community, and its judicial representative, the jury, as scientific truth. That kind of stuff is frequently called junk science and it has no business seeping into the appraisal profession regardless of how open and receptive the Journal is to new approaches and ideas.
Quite to the contrary, the scientific method is not the codification of facts. The history of science is one of controversy and change. Theories are approximations of the world that cannot easily be seen, and empirical testing is only as good as the underlying theory. Journals are a forum where theories are developed, advanced, verified, institutionalized, criticized, refuted, and die. Peer-reviewed journals mostly contain small studies and incremental modifications...
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