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Re:The 'Irrational' Way Humans Interact With Dentists by stellar678 on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @02:52PM (#1784442)
Or just crowdsource the reading! It would be really interesting to check out the aggregated quality of this kind of technique.
Re:The 'Irrational' Way Humans Interact With Dentists by olefoo on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @04:46PM (#1784875)
If by crowdsource you mean have multiple dentists look at every image set, then maybe. But if you're suggesting that a random selection of people look at dental x-rays and guess where the cavities are... that would be an interesting experiment, but I wouldn't expect too much.

In either case, I doubt you'd find much traction since looking at dental x-rays isn't something most people are going to want to do on a regular basis without being compensated.

Re:The 'Irrational' Way Humans Interact With Dentists by Someone on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @05:46PM (#1785102)
Such compensation need not be financial. I can see a market brokering between people in the same boat "if you look at my x-Ray, I'll look at yours."

First, however, you would have to find out whether lay people are any good at this task.