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The person who says that personal experience does not affect judgment will try harder to separate his emotions from his decision. The person who accepts that it is there will try less to separate his emotions from his decision. That's how I would bet my money.
Besides:
But you have absolutely no way of knowing that based solely on those facts.
A plausible argument could be made that the person who acknowledges the effect that personal experience has on decision-making is thus more prepared to limit its impact than someone who refuses to admit that it exists.
Who's more likely to get hit by a car while crossing the street - the person who acknowledges that you can get hit by cars and thus keeps their head up, or the person who refuses to acknowledge the existence of cars altogether or denies that they could ever hit him?