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> Only if "people's intuitions" are true on a less than a "published research" percentage.

I think it's a safe assumption.

Many people assume intuitively there's a "why" to their existence. Many people assume from their day-to-day experience that the Earth is flat.

Without rigorous method, "people's intuitions" is just that, "intuitions".

Why on Earth would you assume your intuitions are better than professionals combining intuition with methodology in good faith?

The article we're commenting on (which you can discard more easily than I) describes a study you can reproduce easily to prove it to yourself. Why don't you?

Indeed, technical error on my part. The parent commenter is only "most likely wrong" given the psychological literature on this is most likely right. Some of it you can prove to yourself by experiment such as by following along this ASAP science video[1] (it's essentially Kanehman's Thinking Fast and Slow in accessible form).

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JiTz2i4VHFw