He believes that the game represents "everything valued by Western civilization, and maybe Eastern civilization: intelligence, judgment, study, hard work, intuition, calmness under pressure — all of that is on the line with chess".
In most economic studies, intuition and theory lead to a qualitative prediction about a parameter, with parameter magnitude based on empirical methods.
"Being intuitive does not rule out being analytical," said Robert Chard-Yaron, a San Diego clinical psychologist who has studied intuition in students.
Intuition can be cultivated, notes Francis Vaughn, a Mill Valley, California psychologist who has studied intuition for more than a decade, and the author of Awakening Intuition.
His own study and intuition, not focus groups, were his guide.
But, as this study demonstrates, intuition is a faulty guide in thinking about the effects of regulation in dynamic markets.
Before we started our study, our intuition was that, in general, some managers feel more secure in their roles and therefore see suggestions for improvement as a positive way for them and the organization to get better.
In a major Leeds University Business School study on intuition and inspiration, researchers featured this story of a Formula One racer - among other examples - to illustrate their contention that intuition is pulled from knowledge and experience, not from some mystical fount of inspiration.
Trufa says it uses HANA in-memory database technology to "analyze unprecedented volumes of operational data" — describing its system an alternative to making operational decisions based on "backwards-looking case studies and intuition".
Haidt studies moral intuitions which bias our responses to particular situations in predictable ways.
