Fwd: Re: [MR] A&S Questions

[Betty Eyer]

--- L Shuskey <elizedenizza at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>  I haven't run
> into any dishonest judges, but I also know that
> judges are human and the potential exists.  

A judge can be prejudiced by knowing someone without
being dishonest.  It is very easy to allow the praise
or criticism of someone by others to cloud your
judgement of their current work, especially if you are
not knowledgable in the medium they are using.  It is
also possible that you can be too hard on someone you
like or someone in your own household to avoid the
accusation of favoritism, so that a kind of reverse
prejudice occurs.  If you know the person's work very
well, you might have unreasonably high expectations. 
I could think of dozens of other ways in which you
could be prejudiced - what if you gave the person
advice on developing the piece and they ignored it? 
All of this can happen subconsciously without any
deliberate dishonesty, especially if the judge has to
go through many entries in a short time.  

=====
Magdalena de Hazebrouck-Purpure, a fess fusilly argent between three torches or. While Joshua was near Jericho, he raised his eyes and saw one who stood facing him, drawn sword in hand.  Joshua went up to him and asked "Are you one of us or of our enemies?" He replied, "Neither.  I am the captain of the host of the Lord and I have just arrived in this valley." Joshua 5, 13-14.

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