Why His Gut Ruled Out the Repair That Worked
A woman in Watonga told me, in her kitchen, that she did not want the variable-speed unit because it sounded like it was going to be complicated. She did not mean it would make a complicated noise. She meant the word complicated. She had heard me say variable speed and her body had supplied a feeling of complication, and from that feeling she had concluded the equipment was not for her. I want to talk about that today. About the way decisions about machinery get made by the body before the mind has a chance to look at the data. Paul Slovic and his colleagues wrote about this in 2002 in the…
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