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Sunday, April 13. 2008

Gut Feelings

Most of our lives are guided by gut feelings (aka "unconscious thought") and not by deliberate logical heuristics: just consider merging onto a highway, making friends, picking a mate, tennis, or shooting - or consider how Spaniels catch frisbees or how Labs mark the distant fall of a Canvasback. Our brains can do Multivariate Calculus even if we got a B in Trig, confuse left with right, and were dropped on our heads by our Moms.

Those of us who know the flaws of our mental autopilot systems have to compensate by deliberate thought. That means work.

Gert Gigerenzer is good, and his speech here is relevant to law, investing, medicine, sports, and to life in general. "Knowing" too much can sometimes be a handicap (and we all know how much "data" can be wrong). It's a bit long for our ADD readers (over 1 hr), but it is a paean to the brilliance of the irrationally rational intuitive human brain and a credit to Gigerenzer's logical mind, and well worth the time:

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Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Our Essays, Psychology, and Dr. Bliss at 13:37 | Comments (13) | Trackback (1)

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The link is broken, folks... thought you should know.
#1 Jerub-Baal (Link) on 2008-04-13 13:51 (Reply)
Works fine for me.
#1.1 BD on 2008-04-13 14:30 (Reply)
That didn't seem long at all. I am left wanting more!

Actually, I am left wondering what the h•ll is going on.
#2 Mister Snitch (Link) on 2008-04-13 14:01 (Reply)
link borken in Firefox
#3 Larry Sheldon on 2008-04-13 14:42 (Reply)
safari too.
#4 vanderleun (Link) on 2008-04-13 15:13 (Reply)
Either lacking open and close embed arguments or the br / tag right after

" + __flash__argumentsToXML(arguments,0) + "")
#5 vanderleun (Link) on 2008-04-13 15:16 (Reply)
Very sorry. This tech issue is utterly beyond me. Will get the Meister on it. Damn interesting speech, tho, and it works for me.
#5.1 BD on 2008-04-13 15:23 (Reply)
Sorry if the link doesn't work. Advise you to go to FORA.tv and see/hear it, if it doesn't link properly for you here. Good stuff, really.
#5.1.1 BD on 2008-04-13 15:29 (Reply)
Beyond me too--must be a renderer issu. What I see is:

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verbatim--including the quotes.

Makes me wonder if there is an unbalance in thhe quoate count.
#5.1.1.1 Larry Sheldon on 2008-04-13 16:10 (Reply)
...unbalance in the quota count.

Honest ocifer, coffee. That's all I have had to drink...coffee.

http://fora.tv/2008/02/08/Intelligence_of_the_Unconscious
is the URL I think.
#5.1.1.1.1 Larry Sheldon on 2008-04-13 16:19 (Reply)
As an INFJ (Myers-Brigg), I can attest to the power of the gut. Intuition guides my life, and when I don't listen to it, I live to regret it. Sometimes I experience ESP, too, and that used to blow me away...but, no longer. I just accept it as the way it is.
My son took a number of tests years ago and one was an I.Q. test with 10 categories. On "Social gathering" he scored 190. That is the ability to size up social situations and people. I'm thinking he might have inherited some of my voodoo. I don't know if anyone is familiar with 4-Mat, but I'm a 4. The INFJ is the rarest of the 16 types; 4 is the rarest of the four types in 4-Mat. I am from another planet. :)

It's hard being me............. oh...I don't know what multivariant calculus is. I don't know what algebra is either. Even 'thinking' doesn't help me there.
#6 Meta on 2008-04-13 18:07 (Reply)
I knew you were going to say that....
#6.1 Jephnol on 2008-04-13 18:14 (Reply)
Jephnol,

I want you to know that I knew you knew I was going to say that.

What's your Myers-Brigg? (You can Google Myers-Brigg test). It takes about five minutes. Very fascinating.

Over and out. Back to the Mother Ship. :)
#6.1.1 Meta on 2008-04-13 23:11 (Reply)

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