I'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/18

I'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.