Great Moments in Intuition: A Timeline
From Aristotle to amateur baking, here's a history of following that gut feeling.
1943
Avid people-watchers Katharine Cook Briggs and daughter Isabel Briggs Myers develop a questionnaire to measure personality preferences, initially aimed at women entering the wartime workforce. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which counts intuition among the most important facets of a person's nature, becomes one of the most widely used personality tests of all time.
From the August 2011 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine