> Quite frankly, I think the entire process of peer judging is fatally flawed. > If Pentax wants to have a judged gallery, then they should be judging the > thing themselves, with qualified judges, not passing on the responsibility > to people of questionable or no qualification regarding judging of > photographs.
I'm on board, Bill. I'm not even really happy with the idea of "us" providing a pre-evaluation "score card" for the, ostensibly unbiased, judges. Just seeing that "score card" /will/ bias their judgements. That's no condemnation of the judges, just a simple statement of the way human's (generally) work. The judges are going to be biased anyway, by their own upbringing, experience, mood, etc. So does it help or hurt to "pre-bias" their judgement process? Darned if I know. My instinct is that it's a net negative. "Us" versus "them", where them is a small group of hand-picked people with a specific goal, working consciously, and presumably conscientiously, to be unbiased. And "Us" is, well, /us/! And worse. The "Average Idiot" got that name for a reason. -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
