Insisting upon a human interpretation to put a result in context does not reduce the value of the result itself. Interpretations of statistics are still interpretations, after all. The objection is to considering the result as a meaningful object on its own, outside a context that integrates all of the social constructions that might have pushed the results in one direction or another. The supposedly objective method is not irrelevant, it is just no more relevant than other sources of ideas. All sources can be integrated into an overall explanation. Clinical psychologists of a basically interpretivist bent often use scored instruments, especially projective media, to derive a starting point for searching out ideas about their clients that might be hidden by the client during communication. They just do not accept that the instrument necessarily 'says' something definite. After all, the fact that someone gives answers similar to those given by people with a given way of interpreting the world *can* mean you are one of those people. But it can also mean that you have been trained or influenced to consider those kinds of answers more acceptable, or that you have an unusual way of taking the world it that produces the same patterns for some other reason.