Your gut is fast but moody. The facts are slow but honest. Let them argue before you decide.

Instinct and evidence are both partial, and they fail in different ways. A fast reaction carries everything you have learned but cannot tell you why, and it is easily coloured by mood, hunger or whatever happened an hour ago. Facts are slower and steadier, and they are also incomplete, which is why one should not simply overrule the other.

Write down what your gut says and what the evidence says, separately, before deciding. Where they disagree, go looking for the thing your instinct might be reacting to that the facts have missed.