[decimon]

Sober sailor ping.

[Dunstan McShane]

This is actually counterintuitive, Stoffregen says.

If thousands of sailors have been doing this for centuries, doesn't this suggest that it is, in one sense, highly intuitive? In an unsteady situation, don't you always orient yourself towards the steadiest thing you can find?

I have a feeling that, for Stoffregen, "intuition" means "the first stupid idea that comes into your head without validation by a many-degreed psych-geek