gut feeling
an intuitive feeling
TRANSLATION
gut feeling = das Bauchgefühl, die Intuition --- GOOGLE INDEX gut feeling: approximately 4,400,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Would you allow part of your liver to be removed, for example, if your surgeon mentioned having a GUT FEELING that this would be best? Or would you rather hear some concrete reasons outlining exactly why the procedure might be needed?
(The Globe and Mail)
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Belief in God Boils Down to a GUT FEELING
(Yahoo News)
(The Globe and Mail)
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Belief in God Boils Down to a GUT FEELING
(Yahoo News)
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gut feeling
idiom
- a strong belief about someone or something which cannot completely be explained and does not have to be decided by reasoning
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Gut derives from the Old English "guttas" (plural), meaning "bowels, entrails" and eventually developed to mean the stomach or belly. The notion of the intestines as a seat of emotions is ancient, which explains expressions such as "gut feeling" or "gut reaction."
Gerd Gigerenzer, a German social psychologist and the director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, has made a career of studying gut feelings. He says the "gut" is the basis for picking stocks. To demonstrate his theory, his research team interviewed 360 pedestrians in Chicago and Munich in the 1990s.
They were asked if they were familiar with the names of German and American corporations traded on the stock exchange. Using the names of the most frequently recognized companies, Gigerenzer and his team created an investment portfolio
After six months, the high-recognition portfolios, on average, gained more value than the Dow and DAX markets and some big-name mutual funds. The high-recognition portfolios did better than a portfolio created from randomly picked stocks and another made up of low-recognition stocks. The experiment was repeated twice over the years, in different ways. Each time, the gut feeling of the semi-ignorant outperformed the calculations of the experts.
Good to know us ordinary people are not so dumb after all!
(source: New York Times)
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SYNONYMS
feeling in the bones, hunch, inkling, intuition, instinct, notion, portent, vibes
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Rely on your gut feeling when deciding which job candidate to hire."
idiom
- a strong belief about someone or something which cannot completely be explained and does not have to be decided by reasoning
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Gut derives from the Old English "guttas" (plural), meaning "bowels, entrails" and eventually developed to mean the stomach or belly. The notion of the intestines as a seat of emotions is ancient, which explains expressions such as "gut feeling" or "gut reaction."
Gerd Gigerenzer, a German social psychologist and the director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, has made a career of studying gut feelings. He says the "gut" is the basis for picking stocks. To demonstrate his theory, his research team interviewed 360 pedestrians in Chicago and Munich in the 1990s.
They were asked if they were familiar with the names of German and American corporations traded on the stock exchange. Using the names of the most frequently recognized companies, Gigerenzer and his team created an investment portfolio
After six months, the high-recognition portfolios, on average, gained more value than the Dow and DAX markets and some big-name mutual funds. The high-recognition portfolios did better than a portfolio created from randomly picked stocks and another made up of low-recognition stocks. The experiment was repeated twice over the years, in different ways. Each time, the gut feeling of the semi-ignorant outperformed the calculations of the experts.
Good to know us ordinary people are not so dumb after all!
(source: New York Times)
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SYNONYMS
feeling in the bones, hunch, inkling, intuition, instinct, notion, portent, vibes
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Rely on your gut feeling when deciding which job candidate to hire."
