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Interesting article! Do you think there could be a risk of misattributing the cause of the emotion/intuition? After all, people classically misattribute things like arousal, and various aspects of memory. I guess I'm trying to separate how people can be assured they are dimishing biases (e.g. my intuition that the woman is qualified was thrown off by her confident body language) through the process you described, rather than affirming them (e.g. the woman is qualified, but I have been especially critical of her credentials).
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Definitely. It takes practice and increasing your awareness of your self. The list of common cognitive biases (even if you narrow it down to the 5 most common ones) can really help frame your self awareness. Highly recommended that you use a list like that when trying to attribute your causes.

Also, at the end of the day, you have to make a judgement about the quality and benefits of the outcome and keep adding that to your System 1 dataset.