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The scenario you outline is of a person experienced in a technical field having second thoughts about something, but not raising the concerns sure to external f
by clucas 6y ago
The scenario you outline is of a person experienced in a technical field having second thoughts about something, but not raising the concerns sure to external factors.
This is very different from the scenarios mentioned by the GP, where people who are not experienced in the technical field (i.e. not immunologists or HVAC engineer, respectively) ignore the advice of people who are experts, just because it feels right to them in their gut.
I would say, listen to experts (and not your gut) when outside of your field, and listen to your gut (but not only your gut) when in your field.
- astral303 6y agoI agree that listening to expert advice over your gut is the right thing to do. But that’s besides the point—-learning to trust expert advice is a brain behavior that has to be properly learned. (For example, many of us have learned to catastrophize and over-generalize, where bad advice from one expert suddenly translates into not listening to all future experts). I’m imploring: do not dismiss your gut, folks! Please continue to use brain, but stop dismissing your gut. .... “I think therefore I am” is oversimplified bunk.
- lotsofpulp 6y agoYour “gut” is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases And thinking your gut knows something is part of those biases, namely, confirmation and selection bias.
- crazypython 6y agoNo, it's this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebellum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebellum Or, it's System 1, the fast system. While your System 1 might make bias mistakes, I believe it can be trained not to make them.