[sytelus]

All these articles proposing "intuition" as secret magic dust is quite funny. This is culturally amplified by movies and media ("May the force be with you", "follow your feelings").

In reality, intuition is simply a pattern recognition mechanism that sometimes work. Entire science is basically testimony of how our intuition lead us astray and why we need to be disciplined about looking at data, evidence and crafting experiments. Our intuition has always said Earth is flat, Sun rotates around us, time is constant... Virtually every single thing in science is how our intuition (aka the primitive pattern recognition) was so magnificently wrong.

[auggierose]

I think you have to distinguish here between your intuition, and the currently reigning common sense, which you just take for granted and which is not based on your own intuition.

[WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW]

> Entire science is basically testimony of how our intuition lead us astray and why we need to be disciplined about looking at data, evidence and crafting experiments.

This is not really the case. If you look into how a lot of great science is done it often starts with intuition followed by testing / experimenting in order to validate.

[awesome_dude]

More often than not, that spark of intuition is tested by experiment, and turns out to be wrong.

99 attempts at creating a lightbulb... and counting.