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Essay / Instinctual Judgments Essay - 1390
Prejudices and biases play a role in our instinctive judgments because they affect our subconscious decision-making process. Studies have shown that doctors are more likely to recommend unnecessary surgeries to racial minorities, due to “implicit bias” or unconscious racism that affects our instinctive judgments (Viskontas and Mooney, 2014). This perspective suggests that testing instinctive judgments using means of knowledge is similar to the scientific method; innate intuition is combined with evidence from reason and sense perception to confirm our instinctive judgments or assumptions. Robert Heller recommends that we should “never ignore an intuition, but never believe that it is enough” (McKenzie,