How to Generate Quick Answers to Difficult Questions

The mental shotgun makes it easy to generate quick answers to difficult questions without imposing much hard work on your lazy system. Your feelings about dolphins and financial crooks, your current mood, your impressions of the political skill of the primary candidate or the current standing of the president will readily come to mind. The huristic questions provide an off-the-shelf answer to each of the difficult target questions. Something is still missing from this story. For example, my feelings about dying dolphins must be expresse in dollars. Recall that both feelings and contribution dollars are intensity scales.