Relying on our intuitions alone for self-knowledge is dangerous, because thanks to the nature of the adaptive unconscious, they are often no more accurate than a shot in the dark.

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Now, this is not a shot in the dark.

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The company's lawyers had argued jury misconduct but, as the court didn't even allow a hearing on the subject, that seems to have been a bit of a shot in the dark.

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Labour's Iain McKenzie said a cull was a "shot in the dark" because there was "no accurate way" of knowing how many badgers there are in a particular area.

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Epstein tapped Freeman, who gathered John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in a hotel dining room and shot a grainy, understated, black-and-white image of the four in dark turtlenecks -- the soon-to-be iconic "With the Beatles" cover.

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Coming in first place, by the way, in the bedandbreakfast.com pancake competition is a long-shot, dark-horse entry: a lemon-blueberry ricotta-cheese pancake with a sweet lemon sauce, garnished with fresh strawberries.

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Jamie Starkey was shot by a lone male, in dark clothing, who ran off towards the playing fields after the "calculated shooting", police said.

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Driven by a growing mound of student debt, the 18-year-old sports media major said his shot in the dark was low risk.

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