emember the old story of the five blind men trying to describe an elephant? Each grasped a different part of the elephant, and so each thought it was something entirely different: The one who grabbed the tail thought it was like a rope while the one who grabbed a leg thought it was like a tree, and so on.
Of course, none of the men were entirely wrong. What they "saw" was accurate, if limited.
It's a situation not entirely different from the evaluation of a referee. How many of us have been sitting in the room with the evaluator, wondering "what the heck did you see out there?" Often, the same question — at the same time — is rambling its way through the evaluator's head.
Just remember the elephant.
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