>... diagnosing an infectious disease is pretty useless on it's own. I don't think that was what was being measured. The evaluation was a comparison of: >...

>... diagnosing an infectious disease is pretty useless on it's own. I don't think that was what was being measured. The evaluation was a comparison of: >...MYCIN's choice of antimicrobials with the choices of nine human prescribers for ten test cases of meningitis. In that evaluation: >...MYCIN received an acceptability rating of 65% by the evaluators; the corresponding ratings for acceptability of the regimen prescribed by the five faculty specialists ranged from 42.5% to 62.5%. The fact that the acceptability ratings of the five faculty specialists ranged from 42.5% to 62.5% implies that this isn't a trivial problem.