Intuition is a source of confusion for most people, this is because we chose to follow it, believe it, and it ends up leading us the wrong way. At other times, one may be right based solely on following their intuition. Safe to say, intuitional judgment may work in or against our favor. Intuition is said to be the thing that one knows or believes to know not based on facts but purely on feeling. Intuition is emotionally based. This knowledge is based on an innate feeling rather than mindful reckon (Bastick 19).
Intuitive reasoning is not completely dependable as it is at times misleading. Intuition is though right at most of other times. The dilemma comes in knowing when to actually accept this reasoning based purely on a feeling, otherwise called ‘guts' or to just ignore it and go for the hard facts. Thus raising the question, whether we should discard explanations that are intuitively appealing.
According to Gillman, in his book of luck, he speaks of intuition being in support of reason and does not work against reason (20). In so saying, we can choose to retain explanations that are intuitively appealing. There have been cases where intuition has proved to be the friend of reason but still falls short of what actually is.
[...] Our instincts once again, are proven unreliable in such a situation. It is thus evident that one cannot clearly rule that all information based on intuition is either reliable or otherwise unreliable. It is all about knowing the situations in which intuition works and those in which it just cannot. For instance, a situation where a mother stands up to testify for her son whom evidence clearly rules him guilty. Despite her testimony that she knows her son which is obviously based on intuition, they are usually mistaken. [...]
[...] Intuition here is thus deemed a poor informer and misleading. Interviews: people have the tendency to think they cannot go wrong with interviews, that they can instinctively tell when a person is lying. The opposite is true; one cannot completely trust their instincts when it comes to ruling information of either true or false. Instead, investigators should implement the lie detector to suspects, and an employer should also use an aptitude test, this way the results are more trustworthy (Antonakis, Cianciolo and Sternberg 24). [...]
[...] Intuition is emotionally based. This knowledge is based on an innate feeling rather than mindful reckon (Bastick 19). Intuitive reasoning is not completely dependable as it is at times misleading. Intuition is though right at most of other times. The dilemma comes in knowing when to actually accept this reasoning based purely on a feeling, otherwise called ‘guts' or to just ignore it and go for the hard facts. Thus raising the question, whether we should discard explanations that are intuitively appealing. [...]
[...] In the case of brain-damaged patients, they claim to not remember anything and have no recollection of even who they actually are. But they do things; have abilities they cannot explain acquiring, like speaking Chinese. All this is usually stored in the subconscious. The Woman Intuition: Women are said to be very good at interpreting emotions off any communication. They perceive deceit very well and are undefeated when it comes to decipher relative authority and command. All this, they do by just following their instincts. [...]
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