ABSTRACT
Judging is built in to our life experience; it seems to be universal in humans. It begins at birth as soon as the infant emerges from the mother. The baby is immediately inspected to determine whether it is a boy or a girl. At that moment, it is judged. In some cultures being a girl is such a negative “attribute” that the baby is killed. The next judgments are measurements: what does it weigh? How long is it? New techniques now permit pre-natal judging. It is no longer put off until birth. In utero the foetus can be evaluated. Will it be a boy or a girl? Are there pathologies?
