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> From the thermometer’s invention onward, physicians have feared—incorrectly—that new technology would make their jobs obsolete Is that true, or are doctors i
by megy 8y ago
> From the thermometer’s invention onward, physicians have feared—incorrectly—that new technology would make their jobs obsolete
Is that true, or are doctors incredibly risk averse since they have seen what can happen when something goes wrong, and that is death.
- ivanmaeder 8y agoI've also read that physicians can be overconfident in their own abilities: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18440350 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18440350 > … argue that physicians in general underappreciate the likelihood that their diagnoses are wrong and that this tendency to overconfidence… More on the combination of algorithms and humans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_E._Meehl#Clinical_versus_statistical_prediction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_E._Meehl#Clinical_versus_... > Meta-analyses comparing clinical and mechanical prediction efficiency have supported Meehl's (1954) conclusion that mechanical data combination and prediction outperforms clinical combination and prediction.