1. What is meant by "reading thin slices"?
Reading thing slices is judging something or someone based on small and quick knowledge of it.
2. Explain intuitive expertise
Intuitive expertise is our mind knowing more information and more quickly knowing information than our conscious mind can. We rely on this knowledge for automatically processing information every day. As we gain more knowledge, our intuition is able to make automatic decisions on something that used to be a reasoned decision of our conscious mind.
3.What are the perils of relying on intuition?
Relying on our intuition can have severe consequences. Our intuition gives us false confidence on a decision, and also makes us fear the wrong things. False confidence can become a huge problem, especially if it leads to make wrong assumptions and therefor cause us to choose a decision that should be thought through. Fearing the wrong things can also be a problem. Our intuition can tell us that something is dangerous, but the alternative could be even more dangerous. It's always a good idea to think decisions through, not just rely on our intuition because facts are more concrete.
4. Is intuition a fair justification for mistakes made in decision-making? Give reasons and examples to support your answer?
I think it depends on the situation if intuition is a fair justification for mistakes made in decision making or not. If you're using your intuition to make a decision that doesn't have a big consequence if you're wrong, then I think it is a fair justification. For example if you use your intuition to make a bet, but you only gamble a dollar or two, even if your decision is wrong and you lose the bet, there's a small consequence and your intuition is a fair justification. However if you shoot someone because your intuition tells you that this person could possibly be the person you're looking for, like in the Diallo case, the stakes are extremely high and intuition alone isn't enough to justify a mistake that cost an innocent life.
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