Relying on personal experience for certain topics like the benefits of hugging can sometimes be as accurate as scientific research. The speaker highlights that while science may only be right about 50% of the time, their personal lifestyle opinions have been almost always accurate, predicting studies on food supply and alcohol consumption years before they were conducted. The speaker emphasizes that some insights, like the positive effects of hugs, are inherently known through personal experience, making formal studies unnecessary in certain cases.

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