Thin-slicing is a term used in psychology and philosophy to describe the ability to find patterns in events based only on "thin slices", or narrow windows, of experience. The term refers to the process of making very quick inferences about the state, characteristics or details of an individual or situation with minimal amounts of information. Research has found that brief judgments based on thin-slicing are similar to those judgments based on much more information. Judgments based on thin-slicing can be as accurate, or even more so, than judgments based on much more information.
This makes perfect sense. This is why people who are autistic can point out a bad apple in the bunch immediately. By that, I mean people in general. I could meet somebody for the first time and know right away if they’re evil, or if there’s something off about them like there are some type of narcissist or something. Cool… Thin slicing. Thanks for sharing this.
YW and I agree wholeheartedly!
Funny how this is exactly what I've done my entire life; once I have enough "slices" to make an opinion or judgement, I move to the next. I've never felt I needed to know everything about an issue to have a sound opinion.
Nice to know there's a term for it!
Learned a new term tonight.... Thin-Slicing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin-slicing
Thin-slicing is a term used in psychology and philosophy to describe the ability to find patterns in events based only on "thin slices", or narrow windows, of experience. The term refers to the process of making very quick inferences about the state, characteristics or details of an individual or situation with minimal amounts of information. Research has found that brief judgments based on thin-slicing are similar to those judgments based on much more information. Judgments based on thin-slicing can be as accurate, or even more so, than judgments based on much more information.
This makes perfect sense. This is why people who are autistic can point out a bad apple in the bunch immediately. By that, I mean people in general. I could meet somebody for the first time and know right away if they’re evil, or if there’s something off about them like there are some type of narcissist or something. Cool… Thin slicing. Thanks for sharing this.
YW and I agree wholeheartedly! Funny how this is exactly what I've done my entire life; once I have enough "slices" to make an opinion or judgement, I move to the next. I've never felt I needed to know everything about an issue to have a sound opinion. Nice to know there's a term for it!