Data can be manipulated to confirm biases - hence the flaw of averages and jokes about 3 types of lies. And human intuition has also led to discoveries. Conside

Data can be manipulated to confirm biases - hence the flaw of averages and jokes about 3 types of lies. And human intuition has also led to discoveries. Consider that Poincare felt logic was inferior to intuition. Point being just because someone uses data and another uses intuition doesn't inherently make the intuitive wrong. The intuition could be built from a large experiential base with a model whose generative process is much more accurate than a naive application of data. Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity#Criticism_of_the_accelerating_returns_argument http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity#Criti...