Only displaying your own ignorance.
Yes, forensic assessments can be done and in many cases are done on the basis of video, audio, written evidence. Psychiatric assessment can be done strictly on video, audio, written evidence. Pre Disposition Reports's (as an aid to sentencing) are often done on the sole basis of written reports. Jurisdiction and sentencing in this country and most of the world is done on written and reported evidence. Apparently any jurisprudence engaged in in the world to you is on flimsy grounds because judges aren't out having coffee with defendants..
Specifically though what makes you think you actually require meeting people to make assessment and report? Face to face meeting is actually a very small component of what is involved in assessment. Anybody performing Psych assessments spends most of their time reading referral background, looking over results of standardized testing and quite often only meet with the client for one hour. At such time that the assessment findings are already had.
This sense that assessment comes from actually directly meeting people comes from nowhere but your imagination.
More specific to these purposes Eakins, as a study, is very much a narrative open book. One for instance is not left wondering about his hockey or other "ideology" when he repeatedly states them. Note as well I stated that he may well have a good coaching knowledge. I mentioned he isn't translating or conveying that knowledge effectively. As per how it gets translated on ice for instance.
