According to the Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance there are seven failings of expertise. As an educator I am extrememly interested in these. Every year in our country over 100,000 people die in hospitals because of the mistakes of experts. I would like to know what medical schools are doing about this? What can be done? Are experts even aware of these failings.
Here they are:
Seven Ways Experts are Limited
1. Domain Limited
2. Over Confidence
3. Glossing Over
4. Context Dependence within a Domain
1. Medical Experts see specialty in treatments and diagnosis
2. Baseball experts were screwed up by plate in a word series because of "home" plate.
5. Inflexible
6. Inaccurate Prediction, Judgement and Advice
1. Experts have difficulty in predicting the abilities of novices.
7. Bias and Functional Fixedness
Sunday, December 2, 2007
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