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Daniel Kahneman Doesn't Trust Your Intuition

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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The Intuition - The Best Single Predictor

Danny created a system for interviewers to rate job candidates on specific traits like work ethic and political ability or integrity. Interviewers hated that system when i introduced it. Vividly, remember one of them saying, you are turning us into robats. Danny decided to test which approach worked best: Was it their intuition or their ratings from the data? The answer was both their ratings plus their intuition, but not their intuition at the beginning, after they did the ratings. It turned out that that intuition at the end was the best single predictor.

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