Thinking - Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Contributed by Larisa Brooke
Chapter 22
Summary

This chapter expounds on matters relating to professional criticism which is apparent in various disciplines. Kahneman explains how such criticism may flaw intuitions regardless of how productive and mind-opening people regard it. He goes on further to defend perception and attempts to explain the misguided myth of intuitions. The chapter attempts to illustrate how professionals can use their intuitions to assess complexities. Kahneman recounts the analytical procedures that he partook when deriving the underlying truth about the extent to which an expert intuition can be credible.

Analysis

Kahneman uses this chapter to illustrate how intuition works in professionals. While experts are capable of deriving logical explanations in complicated situations, there is a measure of intuitions, or guts as he calls it, that also go a long way to enabling them to make decisions. Such professionals include (but are not limited to) artists and technical personnel. Artists, for instance, can easily tell that an artifact is not genuine without necessarily telling how they came into that conclusion. Human instincts, to a great extent, play a significant role in making sound decisions. Such intuitions collaborate with one’s skills and knowledge to enable a person to derive a relationship or even sense danger. Intuitions, as we find in this chapter, grow with time and experience, and become more validated and reliable as one asserts them to be true especially after an occurrence.

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