Is intuition an accurate way of assessing a person or situation?

Answer 1

it is a good tool to use but is nothing without the facts of the matter and good observation of the situation...a lot of times people get lost in just the feeling of the situation and people are very apt at hiding those feelings or disguising them...becareful...tread lightly...people hide away the things that make our intuition accurate...use other methods as well

Answer 2

Real intuition, where your brain is working in the background and assessing all information, is one of the best and most accurate ways of assessing anything in life.

Our conscious minds are not as good at clear thinking and putting facts together as our subconscious minds are. Intuition tends to originate in the subconcious, and manifests itself as a vague kind of feeling at the conscious level. If you can just train yourself to ignore the static in your conscious mind, or the logical voices that poke holes in your intuitive inferences, you can turn it into a powerful tool for assessing all sorts of things, from people, to situations, to your own actions.

The trick is learning to distract your conscious mind long enough for your intuition to make itself known.

Many people think it has something to do with psychic powers or something like that, but that's not accurate. It's simply your brain working overtime and putting things together when your conscious brain is too busy to do it. Train yourself to use it, and you will find it's rarely wrong, and becomes more accurate the more you use it. It's a really great tool. Gut instincts are rarely wrong, and when they fail, it's usually because we allowed our conscious thought processes to intervene in some way.

Answer 3

You should trust your intuition but at the same time try to reamain a little open minded just incase your first assessment is inaccurate otherwise you might miss out on an other wise good situation...

Answer 4

Yes, intuition is always the best thing to assess, I believe that there is some mechanism in our subconsciousness that knows better that our consciousness and helps us to find the right answer. But with one condition - if you are sure that thoughts about someone or something is not because of your past experience. e.g. you see a person that in some way reminds something bad happened in your life and your thoughts about him/her consequently are bad, but the person has nothing done yet.

Answer 5

Within the first three seconds of a new encounter, you are
evaluated even if it is just a glance. People appraise your
visual and behavioral appearance from head to toe. They observe
your demeanor, mannerisms, and body language and even assess your
grooming and accessories watch, handbag, briefcase. Within only
three seconds, you make an indelible impression. You may intrigue
some and disenchant others.

This first impression process occurs in every new situation.
Within the first few seconds, people pass judgment on you
looking for common surface clues. Once the first impression is
made, it is virtually irreversible.

The process works like this:

* If you appear to be of comparable business or social level, you
are considered suitable for further interaction.

* If you appear to be of higher business or social status, you
are admired and cultivated as a valuable contact.

* If you appear to be of lower business or social standing, you
are tolerated but kept at arm's length.

* If you are in an interview situation, you can either appear to
match the corporate culture or not, ultimately affecting the
outcome.

http://entrepreneurs.about.com/cs/marketing/a/uc051603a.htm

http://psych.utoronto.ca/~joordens/courses/PsyA01/Chapter15/sld005.htm

It takes just a quick glance, maybe three seconds, for someone to
evaluate you when you meet for the first time. In this short
time, the other person forms an opinion about you based on your
appearance, your body language, your demeanor, your mannerisms,
and how you are dressed.

With every new encounter, you are evaluated and yet another
person’s impression of you is formed. These first impressions can
be nearly impossible to reverse or undo, making those first
encounters extremely important, for they set the tone for the all
the relationships that follows.

http://www.mindtools.com/CommSkll/FirstImpressions.htm

Researchers led by Dr. Gitte Lindgaard at Carleton University in
Ontario wanted to find out how fast people formed first
impressions. They tested users by flashing web pages for 500 msec
and 50 msec onto the screen, and had participants rate the pages
on various scales. The results at both time intervals were
consistent between participants, although the longer display
produced more consistent results. Yet, in as little as 50 ms,
participants formed judgments about images they glimpsed. The
"halo effect" of that emotional first impression carries over to
cognitive judgments of a web site's other characteristics
including usability and credibility.

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/blink/

According to folklore and conventional wisdom, the first
impression you make upon meeting a person sets the tone for the
subsequent development of the relationship. A bad impression,
therefore, constitutes an irrecoverable error. That being the
case, you should always make it the highest priority to look your
best in any situation in which you might meet people, and women
in particular.

Irrational!! Shallow, superficial people judge others by "first
impressions". It is an indication of intellectual laziness of an
unwillingness and possible inability to reason deeply, analyze,
and make informed decisions. A woman who makes a snap judgment of
you based on a "first impression" is hardly worth bothering with.

http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/hmw2b.html

"Our two minds .... One is an act of the emotional mind, the other
of the rational mind. In a very real sense we have two minds, one
that thinks and one that feels" (Daniel Goleman, Emotional
Intelligence, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 1996, page 8). This
rational mind is also called the faculty of logic and reason.

The Upanishads say that these two are opposite in nature. Modern
psychologist also have observed it, but they are not very sure
about it:

"At the same time, reason sometimes clearly seems to come into
conflict with some desires (even while not being in conflict with
others) giving us the impression that reason is separate from
emotion".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason

The emotional mind is subconscious mind and the rational mind is
the conscious mind. The Upanishads call the emotional component
of mind as Chitta and the rational component of mind as Manas.
The nature of Manas changes gradually and minutely with every
perception and learning. Intuition is perception which is
received without apparent effort, quick and ready insight
seemingly independent of previous experiences or empirical
knowledge. First impression is formed by emotional mind
and last impression is finalised by rational mind.

It has been estimated that about 70% of men and 90% of women use
emotional mind most of the time. Using observations through
millenia, wise men of the yore generalized that first impression
is hard to change for most of the people. This wisdom was passed
on to folklore and esoteric texts.

Answer 6

Intuition is very helpful, but it has serious drawbacks.
For example, you can totally misread people or judge them by their appearance.
Sometimes, appearances do not tell the whole story, or the true story.....
Could you tell by looking at someone if:
-they are an Evangelical Christian?
-a Conservative political thinker?
-A heterosexual?
This is why cold reading does not always work. It works some of the time though.

Answer 7

Yes usually most hunches are accurate sure one in a hundred may surprise you but if you have an ounce of feminine intuition yes it is!

Answer 8

All the time.

Answer 9

yes i think so. My intuition has never been wrong,go with your feelings. x

Answer 10

If you haven't clouded your natural instinct with pollutants such as prejudice, drugs and/or alcohol etc. and you keep them finely tuned in a natural setting you can rely on them to work for you.