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Is a strong intuition more likely to be right?
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“This time, I am certain.” Some impressions come with an immediate sense of conviction. Can that inner feeling help us recognise accurate information?
Debra Lynne Katz, Jenifer Prather and Jimmy Akin surveyed 122 people who practise remote viewing. Among them, 89% said they had at some point felt that a detail was correct and later seen it confirmed. They described particularly vivid images, sudden impressions or an idea that kept coming back.
These responses describe a subjective experience. They do not mean that 89% of intuitions were accurate: the percentage counts people who reported this feeling at least once.
To test its reliability, each response and the person’s confidence would need to be recorded before the target was revealed. Errors would also need to be retained. Researchers could then compare accuracy when confidence was low or high.
The question becomes concrete: do the moments when we feel most certain actually correspond to better results? This method would allow researchers to examine the value of intuition without confusing it with the memory of successful guesses.
Further reading: Bulletin of 25 September 2026.
Source: Katz, Prather and Akin (2026), “Sensing Accuracy”, Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition. Article.