But Dr. Kahneman and Dr. Tversky demonstrated that in some cases people behaved illogically, their choices and judgments impossible to reconcile with a rational model.
A proper judgment is impossible on day one.
The doubt over who "really" won Florida makes any confident political judgment almost impossible.
It is a cool day in summer, so global warming is a nonsense.At the other extreme, when everything is connected, judgment becomes impossible for fear of leaving out some important comparison.
Without that context, clear judgment is impossible, especially by those accustomed to the Holocaust notion that Jews in war are nothing but helpless victims -- a standard that can make images to the contrary seem aberrant.
Therefore, false judgment is impossible.
The opposite extreme is impressionist criticism, which holds that judgment is impossible and that all that is needed is a statement of response.
If these blind testings teach us anything, it's that for the vast majority of experts and amateurs fine-grained perceptual judgments are impossible.
In "Showbiz Moms & Dads," though, the filmmakers don't try to maintain a cool distance from their adult subjects; when it comes to the way parents treat their children, judgments are impossible to avoid.
