Sentence examples for distorted judgments from inspiring English sources

Further evidence of distorted judgments by NHS psychiatrists was uncovered by Home Office researchers two years ago who studied what actually happened when mentally disordered offenders were transferred by courts to secure hospitals.

In judging himself he has, or may be presumed to have, the requisite information but he has the problem of overcoming the tendency to a distorted judgment caused by self-love or self-interest.

Third, even if the colonizers really try to treat the native peoples fairly, their natural tendency to sympathize with those similar to themselves (other foreign colonists or merchants) would likely lead to distorted judgment in cases of conflict.

If it's any comfort, Reyna concludes that this distorted judgment is the ironic consequence of a cognitively advanced style of thinking, an intuitive style perhaps more suitable for finding meaning in the murky world of spies and counterspies.

Feminists object that this philosophical consolidation of the preeminence of the masculine over the feminine rests on untenable assumptions about the transparency of the self, the immunity of the self to social influences, and the reliability of reason as a corrective to distorted moral judgment.

And from the distorted perceptions come judgments about who's right and who's wrong, who breaks the law and who doesn't, who should be charged and who shouldn't, who should go to prison and who should remain free.

He said Mr. Harrell's action could have emanated only from extraordinary immaturity, "colossally poor judgment and a distorted sense of humor".

American voters will thus soon be deciding on issues that have been presented to them in a particularly distorted way, and making a judgment on character clouded by the way in which one candidate, Mr Romney, has segued from the aggressive right of the spectrum to somewhere near the centre, particularly in foreign policy, as Monday night's debate showed.

The reason is that we fall victim to a veritable laundry list of cognitive biases that cause us to engage in distorted, imprecise and incomplete thinking which, not surprisingly, results in "perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment or illogical interpretation" (thanks Wikipedia), and, by extension, poor and sometimes catastrophic decisions.

Indeed, Anthony Lewis's judgment about the story seems about right: "It distorted and vastly overplayed what actually was involved".

These skills include the shift from a three-dimensional operating field to a two-dimensional monitor display, judgment of altered perception of depth and spatial relationships, distorted eye hand coordination, adaptation to the fulcrum effect, manipulation of long surgical instruments while adjusting for amplified tremor, diminished tactile feedback and fewer degrees of freedom [3].