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Crowdsourcing a diagnosis? Exploring the accuracy of the size and type of group diagnosis: an experimental study

Mar 19, 2024 | qualitysafety.bmj.com | Jonathan Sherbino |Matt Sibbald |Geoffrey Norman |Andrew LoGiudice

AbstractBackground The consultation process, where a clinician seeks an opinion from another clinician, is foundational in medicine. However, the effectiveness of group diagnosis has not been studied. Objective To compare individual diagnosis to group diagnosis on two dimensions: group size (n=3 or 6) and group process (interactive or artificial groups). Methodology Thirty-six internal or emergency medicine residents participated in the study.
If Biden Loves His Son, He Should Resign

Dec 13, 2023 | spectator.org | Geoffrey Norman

Albert Hunt is urging President Joe Biden to announce that he will not run for reelection and will devote himself instead to the legal defense and personal rehabilitation of his son Hunter. “The particulars in the tax evasion charges against Hunter Biden are sleazy,” Hunt writes.
Taylor Swift Makes Person of the Year — Why? - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Dec 6, 2023 | spectator.org | Geoffrey Norman

Taylor Swift is Time magazine’s Person of the Year, ending the suspense that, in the days and hours leading up to the announcement, was nigh on unendurable. Recalling football coach John Mackay’s line of: “win or lose, there will be 600 million people in China who don’t give a damn.” It does require some imagination, however, to come up with anyone who might have been a better choice. The world of politics is depressingly barren.
Football Isn’t Life or Death

Dec 4, 2023 | spectator.org | Geoffrey Norman

From late Saturday afternoon (or early Saturday evening, depending on your time zone) until noon or so Sunday, the universe of college football held its breath. The College Football Playoff Selection Committee (try saying that fast) would be meeting in the morning to deliberate something of such importance that its members could not have been anything but daunted. The suspense, in some quarters, was almost unendurable. However the committee decided, millions would be beyond disappointed.
Say Goodbye To Henry Kissinger

Dec 1, 2023 | caledonianrecord.com | Geoffrey Norman

He was one hundred years old when the died last week and he had held some kind of official position inside of government for only eight years of those. It seems much longer than that. Like he was always involved, somehow, in the affairs of state. He wrote books, taught, advised, made himself available to the media, won a (shared) Nobel Peace Prize, and dated actresses before he married at fifty. 'Ubiquitous' might have been his middle name.
Not Even Martha Stewart Can Cancel Thanksgiving

Nov 22, 2023 | spectator.org | Geoffrey Norman

For a couple of days, it looked as though Martha Stewart, of all people, had given up on Thanksgiving. She announced her surrender on a television talk show (naturally), saying: “I gave up Thanksgiving. I canceled … nine guests canceled because somebody got sick. So, I called up my chef friend and I said, ‘We’re not doing Thanksgiving.’”She has been “doing Thanksgiving” for a long time now, she went on, and has cooked a lot of turkeys.
The Bones of Verdun

Nov 10, 2023 | spectator.org | Geoffrey Norman

On Nov. 11, 1918, the fighting ended on the Western Front. “The Great War,” as it was known for a short time, was over. But the peace, such as it was, did not last, and, one generation later, the world was back at it. What we now think of as World War II had been made possible — if not inevitable — by what is now merely World War I. But somehow “the Great War” is better. Its scope and its consequences changed everything, and we live, still, in its shadow.
Fortune Favors … the Jets?

Oct 16, 2023 | spectator.org | Geoffrey Norman

For a few minutes on Sunday, the Philadelphia Eagles were the only remaining undefeated team in the National Football League. The San Francisco 49ers having lost — improbably — to the Browns out in Cleveland, the only thing standing between them and at least one week of unblemished glory was a team from New York. It had been one of those long football Sundays. The first kickoff was at 9:30 EST and that game was between the Titans of Nashville and the Ravens of Baltimore. They were playing in London.
Will the Guns of Hunter Biden Prop Up the Right or Left?

Oct 3, 2023 | spectator.org | Geoffrey Norman

Anyone who has been paying attention knows the basics of the story. Hunter Biden bought a handgun from a licensed firearms dealer and, as required by law, signed a federal form asserting that he was not doing drugs. Which was a lie. If, that is, we can take Biden’s word for it. Which is tough without corroborating witnesses and, perhaps, a polygraph session.
Garbage Time in New York City

Sep 26, 2023 | spectator.org | Geoffrey Norman

In the early days of the last century, the city of New York faced a serious horse-manure crisis. “Experts” that by 1930, the stuff would be piled three stories high in the streets. But then, just in time, a savior in the form of the automobile came along, and New York dodged that one. (The literal version, at least.