Why You Shouldn't Always Trust Your Gut | The First Instinct Fallacy

You've probably been told at some point or another to "trust your gut", but is that actually good advice? Hosted by: Anthony Brown ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Jb Taishoff, Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/009862838401100303 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00098655.1962.11476207 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11409-015-9140-8 https://www.apa.org/monitor/apr05/instincts http://people.wku.edu/steven.wininger/Kruger%20First%20Instinct%20Myth.pdf https://familyvest.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/TverskyKahneman73.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247787172_The_Availability_Heuristic_Revisited_Ease_of_Recall_and_Content_of_Recall_as_Distinct_Sources_of_In http://blalock.dyson.cornell.edu/wp/fatalities_120505.pdf https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10640-010-9449-3.pdf https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11409-015-9140-8 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1207/s15328023top1404_17 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15832630/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0013164403251282


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