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Can you TEACH Judgment?

Warbirds
I have been doing a little research on something and I have ran into this question?

Can you teach judgment?

Would judgment always corellate or intersect with expierence if you graphed them together?

If you could teach good judgment, then could you also teach bad judgment?

Do animals exibit signs of judgment, or is each situational decision based on an expierence or an instinct?

I am not looking at it from a point of gun ownership, self-defense, or even civil rights. I would like to try to understand it on as broad a scope as possible.

Shoot/Don't shoot. aircraft accidents, drive/don't drive, eat healthy/eat unhealthy, spend/save, etc.


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  • ljwrench
    I think that judgement comes from a mix of common sense and life experience. The life experience can be taught and learned but most of the time IMO you're stuck with common sense. So yes, to a point, judgement can be taught.
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  • p3skyking
    Judgement can be taught to a logical thinking being. Judgement cannot be taught to an emotional or bigoted thinking being.

    One can observe this very easily, at both extremes, in female jurist that oversee family law courts.
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  • ripley16
    quote:Can you TEACH Judgment?

    Judgement is what parents teach children so, yes, lets hope so.
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  • lpaalp
    Judgement does not require experience. A person can learn (or be taught) to evaluate a series of facts and reach a logical, objective conclusion with no personal background / experience with the subject other than the learning process itself. Therefore:
    - Judgement can be taught (making a decision)
    - Judgement does not require experience
    - Incorrect judgement could be taught - not sure of "bad" in this context (the question didn't stipulate "good" judgement...?)
    - Animal judgement? I'm gonna say no, due to the lack of learning and logic capabilities.

    Interesting question; is theree a book answer?
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  • Warbirds
    I don't know if there is a ''book'' answer, I just thought it was an interesting question.
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  • hslaterpryce
    Just my 2 cents but Judgement like Leadership, and a few other attributes, can only be "learned". I don't think that as a parent I "teach" good judgement. I think that the chilen observes and learns how to make a decision based on their experiences and precedents set by observation of cause and effect.
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  • daveald
    hslayteprice hit it on the head. judgement is the action spurred the the accumulated events in your life.
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  • twin60s
    stupid is as stupid does
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  • l3to
    Judgment is a subjective term, everyone has judgment. I don't thin its taught or learned as much as it grows and develops along with the individual, taking on the characteristic of that individuals experiences. Its like art appreciation, everyone has some; everyone appreciates something as art, but its subjective what art is to the individual.
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  • beantownshootah
    Judgment is defined as the ability to reach the correct decision based on a given situation or set of facts. (We're going to distinguish this from intelligence, which is defined in terms of problem-solving ability).

    Judgment can be partly intuitive, but largely its based on experience. That's why older people have WISDOM (ie judgment). They aren't more intrinsically intelligent, but they have collectively more experience.

    Yes, absolutely you can teach it (to a certain extent, you need a willing pupil, as always). That's why surgeons, pilots, police officers, soldiers etc, undergo training. Its to provide a concentrated and directed set of experience, (or simulated experience) to acquire professional judgment.

    Can you teach bad judgment? Sure. Bad training can lead to inappropriate evaluation of circumstances, bad decision making, and/or wrong actions. . .bad judgement.

    Does judgment always correlate with experience? Not always. There are some people who are naturally wise, and have better judgment (wisdom/maturity) than their experience might suggest. Conversely (and we all know a few examples), there are people out there who just will not learn from experience, and consistently make bad life and other major choices. Criminals, in particular, are often defined by exceptionally poor judgment.

    Do animals have judgement? Absolutely. They learn from experience, as anyone who has tried to wash their cat more than once will tell you!
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