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Intuition can be tuned by the tools of rationality.

Professional poker players infrequently calculate odds consciously, but they have a very strong intuitive sense of probability and game theory. Study and practice allows them to instinctively recognise the expected value of a scenario. Physicists and engineers develop an intuitive understanding of some very complex and counter-intuitive phenomena.



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