On intuition — what it is reasonable to say about it, what is not, and why the practice is worth keeping either way.
Intuition has two bad reputations. To one camp it is superstition; to the other it is infallible guidance. Neither is useful.
The defensible ground is well mapped. Decades of research on expert judgement establish that rapid non-verbal pattern recognition is real, powerful, and reliable in domains where a person has accumulated genuine experience with reliable feedback — the fire chief who leaves the building before knowing why, the physician who is uneasy before the test returns. In domains without those conditions, the same confident feeling is a well-documented source of error. Both findings are solid, and they must be held together.
So the practical question is not should I trust intuition but on what, and how would I know?