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[Thryleon]

Not specifically related to this scenario, but a philosophical question has reared its head here.

What if an intuition or gut instinct is in line with evidence. Is it still prejudice and/or bias?

I like to think of myself as a philosopher, and generally speaking, your gut instinct is usually formed based on some sort of evidence formed by observation of real world practises.

Usually, your gut, will lead you to an observable likelihood.  This may not always be true, but thats where you form a hypothesis then test it.  If it stands up to rudimentary tests, then it effectively has already a basis in fact, not just a wild assertion.

You could expand that to any mode of thinking really and then it becomes a testable hypothesis.  Your gut instincts are in my experience formed from prior experience in similar situations.