What this means is that when people perceive just a small amount of something, quickly, such as a picture of a face briefly flashed on a screen, they automatically "read" it and gain some sort of interpretation or judgement about it.
Explain intuitive expertise.
Intuitive expertise is when someone who has been doing something for a long time and could be considered an expert at it, retains a sort of subconscious expertise in the same area that allows them to be able to do things intuitively, just because of their experience with it. For example, cooks now how much of certain ingredients to put in their meals without measuring it-they just know intuitively what will result in a better meal, but they can't explain how they know exactly to people outside of their area of expertise.
What are the perils of relying on intuition?
The perils of relying on intuition are overconfidence and fear of the wrong things. When people rely on their intuition, but end up incorrect, they tend to say that their intuitive answer was "close" and it was reasonable enough to not be considered exactly wrong. This is an example of overconfidence due to reliance on intuition-people feel they were right because it's what they initially felt. Fear of the wrong things includes fearing what our ancestral history has prepared us to fear, fearing what we cannot control, fearing what is immediate, and fearing threats most readily available in memory. Most of these fears are illogical, and take over our minds instead of the other things that actually pose a danger to us, but we fear them because of intuition. For example, people in the US are more scared to fly on planes because of 9/11, yet they aren't afraid of driving when car accidents have a much, much higher death rate than airplanes.
Is intuition a fair justification for mistakes made in decision-making? Give reasons and examples to support your answer.
I think in some cases, intuition could be a fair justification for mistakes made in decision-making, but definitely not in all. I think every person should try to combat their intuition with logic in order to avoid making these kinds of mistakes. For example, in the Diallo case, the cops made a rational decision based off of what they were seeing and their training (though 41 shots seems excessive). But in the case of the 8 year old boy not being able to fly since he was a baby because of his name, people should have logically realized that this 8 year old boy was of no threat to them, and was just a victim of his name. Their intuitive fear of someone with the same name as a terrorist getting on their plane should have been eradicated once they analytically and logically looked at the actual situation.
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