#asknostr
Do you trust your gut and intuition or do you trust the experts more?
Meaning, If someone claiming to be an "expert" is explaining something that is outside your knowledge base, but you feel like they are lying, do you believe them anyways?
I trust both my gut and my critical thinking. Nothing else.
How do you decide when you don't have the knowledge to support the critical thinking?
I don’t know I have a measure for that, but when that’s the case I default to no having an opinion.
Bit what about when you have to make a choice.
Example - choosing a mechanic and you don't know anything about cars..
I learn from experience in cases like that. Make an uninformed choice, learn from the mistakes.
Isn't an uninformed choice completely out of intuition then? We choose something for some reason. I would say that intuition is information. For me, it has served me more at times than knowing more about something even.
Make sure to apply critical thinking to your own intuition from time to time.
My intuition has served me well too, but it has needed fine tuning to refine it.
I don't blindly trust anything, even my own gut sometimes. I tend to lean towards intuition, but I know for a fact I've been wrong on multiple occasions and been proven wrong by somebody who knows more than me.
It's valid to trust your intuition when an "expert" seems to be misrepresenting something outside their core knowledge, as illustrated by Isaac Newton, a physics genius who lost a fortune in the stock market; Elon Musk, a marketing expert whose ambitious technological promises have often faced significant delays; and even some Bitcoin core developers whose C++ proficiency might lead them to overestimate their grasp of complex fields like economics, philosophy, and monetary networks. This phenomenon can be partly explained by the Dunning-Kruger effect, where individuals, even experts in one domain, may overestimate their competence in other areas, lacking the self-awareness to recognize the limits of their expertise and mistakenly believing their specific proficiency translates broadly.
I rely heavily on intuition when it comes to bitcoin. It's way over my head.
Intuition. If I don't know about something I research it. Anyone claiming to know everything is trying to sell you something
I agree. Sometimes it isn't practical to understand it all. Some things take a lifetime to understand super well. Example - I am a die hard bitcoiner, choosing knots. Not because I understand it well. But because of intuition.
Someone who doesn't understand how cars work really has to be able to trust their intuition. They aren't likely to figure out the inner workings in order to pick a mechanic. No pun intended. 😜
Sometimes answers are outside the intuition - expert opinion spectrum.
Always take into account the unknown.
Depends how much I care.
At worst, I don't care so much and accept it as true but I don't know and it isn't immediately important to me. Then some years in the future, it becomes relevant and I lean towards people who tell the same lie because it's in my subconscious bias now.
If it matters at the time, I tend to get different opinions, test against my logic and current biases, and proceed with caution.
I am really guilty of trusting too much the so called experts!
No.
If they claim to be an expert I subject them to scrutiny.
