Yet let's face it: when judging musicians, we pick on things like pitch and intonation not least because it's easy to do so -- literally as easy as A, B, C. We have standard vocabularies for such technicalities, and it's effortless to pick on high notes precisely because they're so hard to hit.
"People will pick on things and say, 'you can lose that' and a whole lot of other licence fee-payers will rightly say, 'that's of huge value'".
Remember, your "voices" can be subtle and pick on things that have some reality or are areas you are weak in.
Often, enemies will pick on things that they have anxiety about in their own life.
"I put that on my door," said Wright, who picked one thing to work on each day.
The reviewers all picked on different things, none of which are that important.
"I will not stand for anyone to pick on one thing," he said.
(Wales FGD 1) There are so many things that you have got to take into account like social circumstances, does he have someone in the house to keep an eye on him, do they have a whole load of other co-existing illnesses, um you know it's very difficult to pick on one thing, it's you trying to make a decision on a number of factors.
"He just seemed like he picked on the smallest things," Chodorow said last week, from Las Vegas.
The obsession with accountability has, the IPA says, actually prompted marketers to pick on single things that can be easily measured.
