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Re:Jessica Livingston by bolangi on Friday June 23, 2023 @04:15PM (#36451686)
> I am extremely skeptical of someone who claims this ability in themselves or others.

Have you never heard of someone being a good judge of character?

Re:Jessica Livingston by dragonwriter on Friday June 23, 2023 @04:22PM (#36451763)
> Have you never heard of someone being a good judge of character?

I’ve heard of people claiming to be a good judge of character, or claiming other people are, usually without evidence and as an excuse for actions which involve disregarding objective indicia of character as it relates to the decision at hand, and very often as an excuse specifically for making decisions that seem to amount to disregarding objective criteria to favor their own and/or a generally-socially-favored race, ethnicity, subculture, etc.

Re:Jessica Livingston by p3rls on Saturday June 24, 2023 @09:50AM (#36458696)
I like to use nominative determinism to figure out who to hire, myself.

Dragonwriter, now that's a good name, you'd have a shot for sure.

Re:Jessica Livingston by asveikau on Friday June 23, 2023 @05:13PM (#36452224)
I've heard of many kinds of things. You've never heard of someone being wrong?