ABSTRACT
Judgement is a quality which most people would assume they understood, but few would care to define. It is commonly regarded as a personal attribute, and the quality of judgement exercised by an individual tends to be assessed subjectively by others affected by it. With judgement, for example, we must forget about the idea of personal judgement described briefly above and look more deeply into the qualities required in arriving at a solution. It is an aspect of judgement which people describe as Complexity. It is, however, a quantitative rather than a qualitative test, and the real essence of judgement is contained in a second element which we call intangibility and define as: This definition must be understood precisely. To take a frivilous example, it is useless trying to claim that in recruiting junior shorthand typists any judgement is exercised in assessing whether the recruits are likely to stay with the firm or will leave early to get married.
