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Uhm, no, but funny. Your intuition that Dr. Kahneman's general claim about intuition is weak, is way off, but humorously apropos. This is not just his own intu
by joshuak 8y ago
Uhm, no, but funny. Your intuition that Dr. Kahneman's general claim about intuition is weak, is way off, but humorously apropos.
This is not just his own intuition. Daniel Kahneman is a Nobel prize winning psychologist principally responsible for inventing an entirely new field of social psychology called Behavioral Economics, which is based largely on how humans misapply intuition.
Working with Amos Tversky, with whom he shares the Nobel prize, and others, Daniel Kahneman did extensive research demonstrating just how our intuition is wrong. You can read more about it in his book "Thinking, Fast and Slow".
Experiment after experiment show that most people's intuition is generally wrong, outside of very specific contexts as the article discusses. They also show that people are resistant to intuitive contradictions and use their intellect to create arguments to justify their flawed intuition, rather than accept their intuition was wrong when confronted with new information. In other words not only are intuitions often wrong, but wrong intuitions are sticky and very difficult to correct.
Now my question to you is, do you feel any resistance to changing your initial intuition despite this new information?
- astazangasta 8y agoNo. I know who Kahneman is and realized after a moment's thought that my initial response was wrong; probably based on an impulse to reject any authority. I tossed off the comment just before going to bed, immediately reconsidered and tried to delete it but could not. I left it as is figuring the responses would be interesting. That intuition, at least, was correct.