Judgments

For these past few months, I couldn't find another person that will judge you by your present. Many or rather all would judge others based on their past. Be it a long time acquaintance, or a close friend. Today I read my colleague's notes on organisation behaviour. Interesting, as there is actually many different terms for those types of judgments. I will try to recall as much as I can here. There is the 'halo effect', which caught my attention. It means that a person or matter is judged based on one singular characteristic of the person or the matter. This is definitely a biased judgment, all I can remember is those biased judgments. Apparently, you can't really find unbiased decision in this world unless its made by a computer. Even in the case of using a computer for judgment, it can be somewhat biased as the programmer is still human.

Then there is the other one called stereotyping, which means grouping a person or matter that display certain straits and characteristic exclusive to that group. As you might see that these are based on the characteristics and of course from the past. Since all studies are based on using past statistics to actually 'predict' the future. I think this is the way things work on the planet, or maybe for this time period. Of course we should always give more weightage to the more recent results as to trim off the biased aspect of the calculation or judgment.