Dutiful, but not Insightful Reading

Trying to clear the decks of library books before I head off for a couple days vacation, I finished the third Malcolm Gladwell book, Blink. This one has two diametrically opposed observations. First, that trained people can make accurate decisions in about two seconds because they ignore everything that is irrelevant and zero in on the key element. Hoving from the Met is used as an example of someone, who it appears can intuitively spot a forgery, but who in reality has trained for years (harken back to Gladwell's theory of 10,000 hours to expertise). Just when you want to trust your own gut first impressions, Gladwell flips over to illustrate split second biases of the cops in the Amadou Diallo case and how conductors are prejudiced in whom they place in their orchestras unless auditions are held behind screens. This is not a message of "trust but verify;" rather I can only conclude that Gladwell is more comfortable when that instant discern affects inanimate objects rather than people, especially those one does not know. I really have nothing else to say. Sorry this took longer than two seconds to read. But I think you get my impression.