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But it seems to me that his brief for "thin-slicing" is misplaced, as almost all of the best "thin-slicers" in the book are also people who are operating on the basis of staggeringly deep experience: the art historian with a career's worth of knowledge about Greek statues, the Marine with a half-century of combat and leadership behind him, the cops who have spent years onthe streets.

In short, Gladwell claims that "thin-slicing" can work for everyone, while I think his evidence seems instead to suggest that it will work best in places where you already have enormous amounts of knowledge. Then, all you need to do - and this is the trick, because it's very hard - is to *not* use that knowledge consciously, but instead to let your subconscious process it and apply it to the situation at hand - in a blink.]]>