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.
Lei ha detto: "dato che pensavo che la mia convinzione fosse corretta..." lei pensava lo fosse, era molto dura accettare di fare un esperimento difficile, cioè provare, testare se per caso non fosse sbagliata.