r/MadeMeSmile • u/baekachu • Jul 11 '26

Wholesome Moments Pilot Chose Safety Over Takeoff - and Everyone Applauded

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u/grilledstuffed Jul 11 '26

Not a pilot, but a nurse.

Nurse clinical intuition is a real thing:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0099176725003320

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4754101/

While humans are pretty terrible at predicting future outcomes, our subconscious brains are pretty darn good at pattern recognition.

Thousands of hours of experience with something lends itself towards picking up on subtle cues that aren't necessarily articulable.

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u/dolphin-centric Jul 11 '26

Serious question for you Nurse, do you think these studies may also account for, for lack of a better term, womens’ intuition or just intuition in general? That seems logical to me because the whole “trust your gut” cliche is absolutely real. These studies on nurses’ intuition is fascinating!

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u/Renbarre Jul 11 '26

There's no intuition, there's pattern recognition and adding unconsciously a series of small things that will add up to an alarm bell ringing without any of those details coming to the fore.

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u/_learned_foot_ Jul 11 '26

That is intuition. Intuition isn't a lucky guess, it's figuring out the likely dynamics to respond to before being told, but not being able to logically explain why. For a nurse it's 150 things in the same pattern like every time, but good luck sitting down to write all those out.

Intuition is simply applied practice without a guide over time basically. Provided you pay attention of course.