I think it’s a combination of not understanding the process with a lifetime of experience where’s it’s far more right than wrong (Even for younger people, if they have 10-15 years of instinctive behavior being rewarded on some level, it’s hard to accept there are situations it doesn’t work as well). Combine that with the tendency of positive outcomes to be more memorable than others, and it’s not too difficult to understand why people trust their intuition as much as they do.
your claim, that ” we persist on holding onto them exactly because we do not know how they work” has not been proven, as far as I can tell, and seems unlikely.
It may not be the only reason, but an accurate understanding of how intuitions work would make it easier to rely less on it in situations it’s not as we’ll equipped for, just as an understanding of different biases makes it easier to fight them in our own thought processes.
I think it’s a combination of not understanding the process with a lifetime of experience where’s it’s far more right than wrong (Even for younger people, if they have 10-15 years of instinctive behavior being rewarded on some level, it’s hard to accept there are situations it doesn’t work as well). Combine that with the tendency of positive outcomes to be more memorable than others, and it’s not too difficult to understand why people trust their intuition as much as they do.
your claim, that ” we persist on holding onto them exactly because we do not know how they work” has not been proven, as far as I can tell, and seems unlikely.
It may not be the only reason, but an accurate understanding of how intuitions work would make it easier to rely less on it in situations it’s not as we’ll equipped for, just as an understanding of different biases makes it easier to fight them in our own thought processes.