Snap Judgment Errors

Everyone is at some point in time whether intentional or not guilty of judging someone or something before getting all the information needed to make an opinion instead of an assumption. Common errors in judgment affect our ability to creatively think, which I know I am guilty of a couple of judgment errors. (Bethel, 2013, pg. 4) Projection which is blaming your faults on others because everyone does it is something I am personally guilty of doing. (Bethel, 2013, pg.4) I remember in high school getting caught skipping class, all I could say at the time was I did it because all my friends were doing it and I wanted to be with them, which is peer pressure at it finest but still not a valid excuse. I should have been honest about why I felt it was okay for me to skip that one class. I hated that class, and it was the
I learned to own up to my mistakes because laying blame on others was not going to get me out of trouble. Snap judgments are made based on not knowing all the facts before making a decision about how you feel towards someone or something. (Bethel, 2013, pg.4) Not knowing all the facts can cause you to misjudge based on the potentially unreliable information. I feel like snap judgments are like the saying “Don't judge a book by its cover.” If you do not open the book and do strong research how will you truly know about something. After graduating high school, I had plans to move to Virginia, even though everyone told me it was a dangerous place to live and the people were just ignorant, lazy individuals. I had already done my research on where I was planning to move too. I studied crime rate, job rates, housing cost, and the laws of the state but what people were telling me made me scared, and I began negatively about the situation. After arriving and getting settled, I started to meet a couple of people and realized all my fear was