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I don't think it's so much a matter of teaching every judge to think the same way as it is a matter of allowing every single one of them to express their thoughts in one language: point code.
Look at this: https://usagym.org/PDFs/T&T/Junior Olympics/TR_errata_12-09.pdf
It's a sheet of tumbling deductions created by the USAG. Every possible mistake is accounted for and assigned a value. No matter what subjective feelings a judge might have about a skill (or a series of skills), they can only use the point code to communicate what they see. They can't (as far as I know) just add or remove points because they feel like doing so.
That's only if we move to a code of points, then sure. I was speaking in terms of our current, more subjective scoring system.