Ah, but explicit reasoning isn’t the only antidote
Yes, I was just about to edit my post to say “an antidote” rather than “the antidote”. As a practical matter, no one is going to explicitly reason through every situation. A more practical antidote is to recognize biases and learn rules of thumb for avoiding them. A classic example is the conjunction fallacy. Explicitly calculating conditional probabilities will obviously correct this fallacy, but most of us are not going to do that most of the time. However, if one is aware of the fallacy, one can develop a rule of thumb that states that less specific hypotheticals are usually more probable than more specific hypotheticals; this rule is sufficient for avoiding the conjunction fallacy most of the time. However, even here, explicit reasoning played a role in avoiding the bias; explicit reasoning was used to learn about and understand the bias, and to develop the rule of thumb.
Is using this sort of rule of thumb what you mean by using intuition to correct for emotional and cognitive biases?
Yes, I was just about to edit my post to say “an antidote” rather than “the antidote”. As a practical matter, no one is going to explicitly reason through every situation. A more practical antidote is to recognize biases and learn rules of thumb for avoiding them. A classic example is the conjunction fallacy. Explicitly calculating conditional probabilities will obviously correct this fallacy, but most of us are not going to do that most of the time. However, if one is aware of the fallacy, one can develop a rule of thumb that states that less specific hypotheticals are usually more probable than more specific hypotheticals; this rule is sufficient for avoiding the conjunction fallacy most of the time. However, even here, explicit reasoning played a role in avoiding the bias; explicit reasoning was used to learn about and understand the bias, and to develop the rule of thumb.
Is using this sort of rule of thumb what you mean by using intuition to correct for emotional and cognitive biases?