{"id":3941,"date":"2013-07-26T12:53:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T11:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edgecumbe.co.uk\/?p=3941"},"modified":"2021-07-01T15:09:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T14:09:27","slug":"were-generally-overconfident-in-our-opinions-and-our-impressions-and-judgments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgecumbe.co.uk\/were-generally-overconfident-in-our-opinions-and-our-impressions-and-judgments\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">So says Daniel Kahneman, psychologist and 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize winner for Economic Sciences. In relation to making important recruitment decisions, this quote couldn\u2019t be more apt. Medical consultants have traditionally been recruited based on a short (45 minute) interview based largely on their CVs, and often influenced by where they have studied, who they have worked with and how many papers they have written.\u00a0 The \u201ctrial by sherry\u201d as many described how they were recruited in the not so distant past, is a selection exercise based purely on opinions, impressions and judgements. While it is extremely difficult to eliminate subjectivity completely, using a selection of modern recruitment methodologies such as presentations, simulation exercises, psychometric testing and a structured interview based on insights into the candidates from psychometric testing, can go a long way to standardising the process and reducing bias. The current interest in values based recruitment in the NHS provides all the more reason to put robust processes in place for recruitment because assessing someone else\u2019s values is tricky and easily skewed by bias.\u00a0 In a recruitment decision that is so important, costly and with long-term implications (most consultants are likely to stay in their job for a very long time if not for life) \u201cthe effort investing in \u2018getting it right\u2019 should be commensurate with the importance of the decision\u201d (Kahneman). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by Dr. Megan Joffe<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So says Daniel Kahneman, psychologist and 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.2 - 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