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People making emotional decisions don't ask for more information when they are uncertain, and therefore can't rationally analyse what further information / support is needed and use technology to gain that information.

Therefore, even if emotional decisions are more accurate than a reasoned decision made with no technological assistance (whether the assistance is from pen and paper calculations or a complex model with data taken from the Internet), reasoned decision making can benefit from this technology and so is likely to be more accurate for that reason.

Check out Gerd Gigerenzer's work: Gut Feelings, and Fast and Frugal Heuristics. He also studies Bayesian reasoning.