[HN Gopher] Dexterity assessment of hospital workers: prospectiv...
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       Dexterity assessment of hospital workers: prospective comparative
       study
        
       Author : bkudria
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2024-12-28 01:28 UTC (21 hours ago)
        
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       | qrybam wrote:
       | Gut reaction to the results: swearing because you feel you should
       | have got it, and frustration because you feel it's too hard.
        
       | woliveirajr wrote:
       | > Implementation of a surgical swear jar initiative
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       | Yes, the main goal of a surgical site is to avoid swearing
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       | > our findings are not applicable to children younger than 4
       | years for whom the buzz wire game's small parts may represent a
       | choking hazard, although these individuals are unlikely to be
       | currently employed in secondary care.
       | 
       | Now, that's a point. I'd avoid a 0-3 toddler if i could choose so
       | before some surgery.
        
         | munch117 wrote:
         | It would seem that swearing is correlated with higher skill. It
         | may be premature to suggest that we should encourage increased
         | swearing - correlation is not causation - but it seems the
         | logical avenue to pursue. Further research is needed.
        
         | SiempreViernes wrote:
         | This is an example of a sentence where truncation significantly
         | changes the meaning. It reads in full
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         | > Implementation of a surgical swear jar initiative should be
         | considered for future fundraising events.
         | 
         | from which it is clear that suppression of swearing by the
         | surgeons is very much not the intended goal.
        
       | wslh wrote:
       | The study appears to omit handedness as a potential factor
       | influencing performance.
        
         | chaos_emergent wrote:
         | Why is it relevant to include that factor
        
           | pugworthy wrote:
           | Whether by specific design or just by unconscious bias, the
           | world is primarily right handed.
           | 
           | The buzzwire game used for example has a wand on a flexible
           | wire with the wire attached towards one side of the base and
           | not the center. Does this create bias? Hard to say, but it
           | might.
           | 
           | See pictures of the Buzzwire used in the test at
           | https://www.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-buzzwire-game/p4349607
        
       | Animats wrote:
       | There's a standard test for this: The O'Connor Tweezer Dexterity
       | Test.[1] There's a board with small holes, a supply of metal
       | pins, and a tweezer for putting pins in the holes. It's
       | overpriced, because it's "medical".
       | 
       | Some electronics assembly plants use such a test to screen new
       | hires.
       | 
       | Tweezer dexterity improves with practice. Hands are more precise
       | than vision. Looking through a microscope, you can position
       | something within a thousandth of an inch with tweezers. This is
       | familiar to anyone who's placed surface mount parts on a board by
       | hand.
       | 
       | [1] https://www.amazon.com/s?k=tweezer+dexterity+test
        
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