Intuition alone can help you take right decisions: study

Agencies : Jerusalem, Fri Nov 09 2012, 17:22 hrs

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When shown six pairs of numbers, for example, the participants chose accurately 65 per cent of the time. But when they were shown 24 pairs, the accuracy rate grew to about 90 per cent.

"Intuitively, the human brain has the capacity to take in many pieces of information and decide on an overall value," Usher said.

He said that gut reactions can be trusted to make a quality decision.

The study was published in the journal PNAS.

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