Feminine Intuition

"Feminine Intuition" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, originally published in the October 1969 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and collected in The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories (1976), The Complete Robot (1982), and Robot Visions (1990).

"[1] After several failures together costing half a billion dollars, JN-5 (also known as Jane) is produced and the company plan to use it (her) to analyse astronomical data at the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona, to calculate the most likely stars in the vicinity of Earth to have habitable planets.

Desperate to know what, if anything, Jane had discovered, U.S. Robots asks Susan Calvin for her assistance.

She solves the problem using her own version of feminine intuition – a combination of careful information gathering and astute psychological reasoning.

Information provided by this truck driver enables her to reconstruct Jane's answer.