It is this cumulative knowledge, which our feelings summarize for us, that allows us make better predictions.

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If the privileged window hypothesis is correct, feelings are reliable precisely because they are tuning us into the cumulative knowledge necessary to make good decisions.

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Scientific knowledge is cumulative, but financial knowledge is definitely cyclical.

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Is it racial profiling or life's cumulative experiences and knowledge or simply common sense that would cause one to formulate an opinion?

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