Kurvers, Ralf H. J. M.;
Herzog, Stefan M.;
Hertwig, Ralph;
Krause, Jens;
Carney, Patricia A.;
Bogart, Andy;
Argenziano, Giuseppe;
Zalaudek, Iris;
Wolf, Max
Boosting medical diagnostics by pooling independent judgments
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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Boosting medical diagnostics by pooling independent judgments
Contributor:
Kurvers, Ralf H. J. M.;
Herzog, Stefan M.;
Hertwig, Ralph;
Krause, Jens;
Carney, Patricia A.;
Bogart, Andy;
Argenziano, Giuseppe;
Zalaudek, Iris;
Wolf, Max
Published:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016
Published in:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113 (2016) 31, Seite 8777-8782
Description:
<jats:title>Significance</jats:title>
<jats:p>Collective intelligence is considered to be one of the most promising approaches to improve decision making. However, up to now, little is known about the conditions underlying the emergence of collective intelligence in real-world contexts. Focusing on two key areas of medical diagnostics (breast and skin cancer detection), we here show that similarity in doctors’ accuracy is a key factor underlying the emergence of collective intelligence in these contexts. This result paves the way for innovative and more effective approaches to decision making in medical diagnostics and beyond, and to the scientific analyses of those approaches.</jats:p>