Mr$.$ Pines thought Ms$.$ Smith was the ideal employee. Smith was an impressive person and attended all social functions of the company. However, during the past year she had trouble meeting sales quotas. Nevertheless, on her performance appraisal, Pines rated Smith as one of the top salespeople. On hearing this, other salespeople complained that Pines must guard against $\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_$ in rating Smith.

$1.$ discriminating on the basis of race and age

$2.$ overemphasizing some issues and underemphasizing others

$3.$ allowing recent performance to be overemphasized

$4.$ discriminating on the basis of gender

$5.$ allowing poor performance on one activity to influence his overall judgment