Surprisingly, even though no one could ascertain the specific connections between the clues and the weather, after fifty trials people were guessing right about 70 percent of the time. They had gradually gained a “feel” for what was going on; their brains had quietly picked up the accumulated lessons. Though their logical intellect was still stumped, those people had grasped the essence of the solution intuitively. It just felt right—their intuition told them what to do, based on the lessons learned.
