"You're not able to make good judgments," she says.
"We ask the officers to make good judgments".
And there is, of course, the need to make good judgments about public trust and drawing lines.
"I think Mitt is highly intelligent and can make good judgments," said Mr. Landry, who has known the candidate through both political and business dealings.
Just a few sessions of heavy drinking can damage someone's ability to pay attention, remember things and make good judgments, research shows.
"In easier times," he said, "students were satisfied with just learning the techniques — what math or which software programs do they need to impress an employer?" Now, he said, they want to learn how to make good judgments.
And so if what you're trying to do is micromanage and solve everything then you end up being a dilettante, but you have to have enough knowledge to make good judgments about the choices that are presented to you.
This is a huge challenge in a country too afraid to teach politics as a standard subject at secondary school, unlike many of our Scandinavian neighbours, let alone achieve sufficient attainment levels for school-leavers in subjects such as reading and mathematics to be able to make good judgments.
Finally, self-trust is not always merited: consider the brash teenager who insists on exercising social independence based on her unwarranted confidence in her abilities to make good judgments (see Mackenzie 2008, n. 36).
