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[kruddler]

Kruddler, I don’t agree. I’m talking about sub-conscious observations not sub-conscious biases. In other words, observations that make a person feel that something isn’t right without being something he or she can put his or her finger on immediately. Maybe an alert cop will pick out someone impersonating a cop because of a gun worn on the wrong side or a uniform being a slightly wrong colour. That’s the sort of thing that can lead to a gut feeling that demands further investigation. But it is based on observation or evidence rather than a mindset that all of a particular subset of a population are suspect.

My head hurts trying to understand your agreeing / not agreeing.
Lets wind it back a bit.

This was the quote that lead to this tangent.

Intuition or gut instinct is great if it is based on evidence. But intuition or gut instinct which isn’t based on evidence is just prejudice or bias.

You agree that intuition can be sub-consciously based on evidence? re cop knowing without knowing why.

You state that intuition based on a mindset is prejudice and bias.

My question is this.
If its all sub-conscious. How can you determine how and from where the 'feeling' came from....was it observational evidence or a pre-conceived mindset?? How can anyone say with any kind of certainty what a persons sub-conscious motivations behind their intuition were?
A second party would have to use their intuition to guess at where the first persons intuition came from.....but could be biased in their opinions. Soon you've got layering akin to Inception going on.

Which leads back to my original question...

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

The trick here appears to be in the bias of the person answering the question.