2009-11-12

Normality, expertise and fairness.

Who is more knowledgeable? The physician who remembers more diagnostic tests than any other physician or the physician who is the quickest and most savvy at online searching for the relevant tests? Who is the most technically expert surgeon? The one who has the most nimble fingers and the sharpest eyes or the one who can make herself most comfortable with robotically assisted micromanipulators? This story taken from athletics suggests that we are going to be uncomfortable with some of the answers to these questions for many years to come.

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