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Do you have any empirical data to back your point up? Or are you basing your thoughts about gut feelings on gut feelings?
by j_baker 13y ago
Do you have any empirical data to back your point up? Or are you basing your thoughts about gut feelings on gut feelings?
- nawitus 13y agoYou don't need specific empirical data to back up the point of saying that claims without empirical data are not reliable enough. We have the scientific revolution to back that point up.
- j_baker 13y agoI think it's worth noting the irony in that you seem to believe in solving everything rationally except for the value of rationality. One thing that scientific research has elucidated is that gut feelings aren't useless, and in fact can be very useful in evaluating people. The thing is that we take in so much data via our senses and the conscious mind is only capable of handling a very small amount of those signals. The unconscious mind picks up on these things and surfaces them as intuitions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition_(psychology)#Studies_and_claims https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition_(psychology)#Studies...