judgment calls
Discretionary choices made
Judgment calls are decisions made using personal discretion rather than clear rules or guidelines.
The term acknowledges that reasonable people might decide differently given the same circumstances: Whether to intervene was a judgment call.
Often used when someone must act without complete information or when established criteria don't quite fit the situation at hand.
- gray areaAmbiguous, ill-defined situation
- decision-makingProcess of choosing actions
- evaluationDetermining worth or quality
- assessmentFormal evaluation of worth
- best guessLikeliest prediction attempted
choice · split-second · in the moment · heat of the moment · on the fly · conclusion · situational awareness · penalty · opinion · gut feeling · deliberation · inference · close calls · good faith · ethical considerations · moral reasoning · accountability · hypothesis
- gray areasgray areas, murky waters, fuzzy boundaries, ambiguities, fine lines
judgment callscertainties
Assured truths
no-brainers · slam dunks · foregone conclusions · absolutes · sure things
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