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This article is about the reliability of human intuition and the value of our subconscious decisions vs. logical thinking. This article interestingly brings up the gender gap in intuition and how mothers with there nurturing sense are more drawn to intuition. This article discusses the pros of thin slicing but also the cons of too heavily relying on human intuition.

An interesting article about knowing when to follow your intuition and when not to. This WOK is part of our most recent class discussions and this article can help me and my classmates better understand controlling intuition and what it really means as a way of knowledge.

This article shows how racial profiling is still relevant to today's society when a African American man tried to purchase a belt from Barney's New York. The man was stopped a few blocks down from the shop, being accused of paying with an unauthorized card. He was told his identification was false and there was no way he could have afforded such an expensive purchase. This reminded me of Blink when Malcolm Gladwell introduced this idea of thin slicing and the intuition and how sometimes one's first thoughts can be wrong. One example that this connected to in Blink was the car salesman, who had to get rid of his initial thoughts about someone and be more open to the buyer and decide who the person is before he made judgements about the buyer.

This article has to do with TOK because police officers decided with previous knowledge about these two girls that they could possibly bully and cause this again to another girl. There are many WOK questions that can be developed from this article. Such as what ways of knowledge does the police officers use to arrest these two girls. I think it's partly intuition and sense perception. I think there are many more TOK related questions that can be developed from this article.