In a society where people are taught, “think before you act,” and “haste makes waste,” Malcolm Gladwell, in the introduction to his book Blink, offers an interesting model of decision-making, one that relies on sensible intuition rather than careful judgment. He argues, using many famous examples, that the first impression that a person has about something can be more accurate than the result drawn from extensive evaluation. The first example he uses is the kouros example, in which he discusses the controversy over the legitimacy of a kouros figure that was sold to the Getty Museum. The museum, after 14 months of detailed analysis that included mass spectrometry, X-ray diffraction, and using an electron microscope, came to the conclusion that the sculpture was authentic and bought it for a hefty sum of money from a dealer. However, when many scholars and outside experts saw the sculpture, they responded with an immediate sense of disapproval, solely based off their intuition from the first few seconds of seeing the figure. The validity of the work was debated for many years until finally, it was discovered that the statue, which was supposed to be thousands of years old, had been forged in the 1980s. Thus, Gladwell showed that the wave of “intuitive repulsion,” as called by museum director Angelos Delivorrias, was more accurate than the months of research directed by scientists at the Getty museum. Using another study conducted by the University of Illinois, which involved an unsophisticated gambling game, Gladwell showed that our bodies experience subconscious reactions (such as sweaty palms in this case) to unfavorable circumstances; however, these responses occur five times faster than the human brain takes to conclude that some scenario is negative. He describes that the people who doubted the genuineness of the figure from intuition were using subconscious thoughts whereas the scientists at the Getty museum were using