First Impressions

Scott Adams wonders why we are often accurate:

One theory is that we're good at predicting the quality of things
scant clues. But can you really tell if a movie will have a good
which presumably matters, from the first two minutes?

A secondtheory is that we make up our minds about things based on the first fewirrational cues, and everything that follows is rationalization. So ifthere's something in the first two minutes of a movie that I like, forwhatever subconscious reasons, I...