This reminds me of some of the studies illustrated in The Undoing Project (story of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, leading behavior psychologists) where it s

This reminds me of some of the studies illustrated in The Undoing Project (story of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, leading behavior psychologists) where it showed that incredibly simplistic algorithms could be doctors in predicting whether a tumor was cancerous or benign. They asked the doctors what factors to look for, the doctors could accurately describe what to look for. They then created a program that did exactly those things and pitted it against the doctors expecting it to perform poorly and needing iteration -- but it beat the very doctors that described the process. It beat most doctors that describe the process. More data here: https://fs.blog/algorithms-complex-decision-making/ https://fs.blog/algorithms-complex-decision-making/ A boring sounding book details more examples: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0963878492/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0963878492/