Making assumptions!

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30 Apr 2014, 9:12 am

Why do people make assumptions about people/things without proven facts to support there judgements?

Does it all come down to people trusting there gut instinct? The non rational side of humans basically?

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30 Apr 2014, 9:33 am

That's what it comes down to. Definitely.

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30 Apr 2014, 12:05 pm

either intuition. or it could be prejudice/anger.

you could give some specifics.

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30 Apr 2014, 1:28 pm

Could be ignorance, too. People only know 1 or 2 things and they pick from those, without thinking about how there may be other possibilities that they don't know about.

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30 Apr 2014, 9:14 pm

It saves mental energy. NTs seem to run on a deficit.

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30 Apr 2014, 9:57 pm

onewithstrange wrote:

It saves mental energy.

I agree with this.

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