Kingdom of Knuffel

Experience has proven that my instinct has about a 1% success rate, so...
Mine are shit and not worth listening to

Some people say that these hunches are based on cues and evidence which are so subtle that they're grasped into your subconscious but you're not aware of them. I don't have an opinion about what's behind these hunches but they can't be denied they can be pretty uncanny sometimes.

Some might be natural. Like the neighbours' baby is a lot more alert and hostile to men, though she gets comfortable with women relatively easily. She's barely two. I don't think she'd been told that men are more likely to hurt you especially stuff like child abuse, but she's instinctive about it.

I'm curious, what was the story about the baby who died, that seemed off to you?

While I do feel like I am a mostly logic based person I don't completely ignore my instincts. Many of these instincts are based on things that your body notices that you don't. A smell, something out of the corner of your eye, body language. Things like that that you don't necessarily know that your body is actually processing.

i'm kind of odd for an infp because i tend to value fact over feeling. i think emotions can cloud judgment and make people rush into rash decisions based on how they feel at the time, and i think that can cause a lot more harm than good.

but on that same token, i think facts need to be considered with people's emotions in mind. i like concrete evidence, but someone who pushes facts without any regard to another party's emotional needs is just an asshole imo.

but to be perfectly honest, facts aren't the always reliable either, if you consider that data collection and analysis can never be 100% truly objective- since everything has to be interpreted by someone else one way or another. i guess you could call that human bias?

with that said, my intuition is pretty strong. i make most of my decisions based on my gut feeling, usually not logic. but sometimes my emotions are detrimental to me, so i guess i've had to develop a more logical side to combat stuff like depression and anxiety- telling myself that "logically you have nothing to worry about" over and over again started to hammer home that my brain sometimes just really likes to freak me out for no reason.