Medical Students' Confidence Judgments Using a Factual Database and Personal Memory: A Comparison.

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    • Subject Terms:
      INFORMATION science; JUDGMENT (Psychology); MEDICAL students
    • Abstract:
      Examines the quality of medical students' confidence estimates in answering short-answer questions dealing with bacteriology, based on their personal knowledge and what they retrieved from a microbiology database. Relationship between their expertise in answering questions and the amount of overconfidence indicated for the personal knowledge task.