Gut feeling precedes logic. I know when things are right, I don’t know how or why I know, but the explanation of why things are right often comes weeks or years

Gut feeling precedes logic. I know when things are right, I don’t know how or why I know, but the explanation of why things are right often comes weeks or years later. Malcolm Gladwell in his book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking talks about this. Experts in a particular field can often instantly know that something is right, but they can’t explain why. Funny, no one talks about the other phenomenon. The one where experts think things are right and then they turn out not to have been. I guess that phenomenon just isn't as interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking_(fallacy) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking_(fallacy)