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Essay: Intuition and Taste in the Age of AI | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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How do you know when you’ve made a good decision? Most of us weigh a mix of evidence and intuition, testing what the numbers say against what experience and

Photo by Igor Omilaev on Unsplash Essay 1 | Reclaiming Judgment How do you know when you’ve made a good decision? Most of us weigh a mix of evidence and intuition, testing what the numbers say against what experience and context tells us. In engineering, that synthesis is often called judgment, though every field has its own version. The word can make people uneasy. We venerate being open-minded and non-judgmental, and for good reason. Yet in our work, we judge all the time: we weigh evidence, choose between imperfect options, and decide what to trust and what action to take. Judgment, in…

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