And she said, "Given the fact that I thought my intuition was right...", she thought her intuition was right, it was very difficult for her to accept doing a difficult experiment to try and check whether she was wrong.
Y agregó, ya que yo pensaba que mi intuición era la correcta, ella pensaba que su intuición era la correcta, era muy difícil que aceptara hacer un experimento difícil para comprobar si estaba equivocada.