#pre-judging

[muscleobsessive]

Olympia 2019 weigh-in for 212 competitor Derek Lunsford, who made it with one whole pound to spare. So much my boy for this division. Every time I see his gorgeous gorilla jaw, I want to grab his treetrunk neck and shove my tongue down his throat.

[samratkelblog-blog]

Blinded

When you close your eyes, what do you see?

In the shuttered dark, is it simply the absence of me?

Or do you apply negative judgement to the dark?

The staining black denotes evil leaving it’s mark

If your world is filtered through that dark

There is then no light upon which hope can park

It becomes a place weighted in horror and fear

Never able to pierce the layers of black despair

Open your eyes,…

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[newstfionline]

Our pre-judgment problem

By Seth Godin, March 13, 2017

Most of us can agree that picking a great team is one of the best ways to build a successful organization or project. The problem is that we’re terrible at it.

The NFL Combine is a giant talent show, with a billion dollars on the line. And every year, NFL scouts use the wrong data to pick the wrong players (Tom Brady famously recorded one of the worst scores ever 17 years ago). Moneyball is all about how reluctant baseball scouts were to change their tactics, even after they saw that the useful data was a far better predictor of future performance than their instincts were.

And we do the same thing when we scan resumes, judging people by ethnic background, fraternity, gender or the kind of typeface they use.

The SAT is a poor indicator of college performance, but most colleges use it anyway.

Famous colleges aren’t correlated with lifetime success or happiness, but we push our kids to seek them out.

And all that time on social networks still hasn’t taught us not to judge people by their profile photos...

Most of all, we now know that easy-to-measure skills aren’t nearly as important as the real skills that matter.

Everyone believes that other people are terrible at judging us and our potential, but we go ahead and proudly judge others on the basis of a short interview (or worse, a long one), even though the people we’re selecting aren’t being hired for their ability to be interviewed.

The first step in getting better at pre-judging is to stop pre-judging.

This takes guts, because it feels like giving up control, but we never really had control in the first place. Not if we’ve been obsessively measuring the wrong things all along.

[jbk405]

I was speaking with people at work today, and one of them mentioned that her mother just got called in for Grand Jury Duty, and another guy mentioned that he is no longer called for Jury Duty and he wishes that he was, because he likes judging people.  He explained how he can look at them and tell if they’re guilty even before he knows the facts.

My response was to point out that that is literally a definition of prejudice: He is literally pre-judging people.  Not metaphorically, literally: he is forming a judgment before it is appropriate to do so.  Pre.

My only question now is whether or not the entire conversation was some sort of meta-joke that he was playing on me.

[saintends]

If you pre-judge someone, I will pre-nudge you off the edge of a cliff (⊙‿⊙✿)

[ita-blog1-blog]

I'm not sure what the "voice" of Tom and Lorenzo is. The choice of pictures, I get. Very fine indeed. But what is this?

He’s one of those guys who, the first time we saw him we squealed and declared him the hotness, but each subsequent encounter left us a little less enthralled. Physically hot; yes, but after a while the “looks like he might take his anger out on you” vibe takes over,

It's not really important who they're talking about--they don't imply that they're seeing any behaviour that strikes them as violent when angry. Rather it seems like it's a quality in photographs, most of which are probably minutely posed down to the smallest detail. I find it irritating that there's a "look" which violent people are supposed to have that doesn't involve actual violence. Makes it pretty easy for actually violent people to take you by surprise, doesn't it? Even before you get to the bit where you're verging on holding things against people that they haven't earned.