Humans make better quacks than computers

While the tech world gets enthusiastic about computers working out what is wrong with your health, a new study suggests that it is probably better to let a human decide.

There are lots of apps or other symptom based checkers to help self-diagnose diseases. Over the last 20 computer-based checklists and other fail-safe digital apps have been increasingly used to reduce medication errors or streamline infection-prevention protocols. Yet the first direct comparison shows human doctors outperform digital ones in diagnostic accuracy.