The study, originally published in Annals of Internal Medicine, examined the responses of male and female medical students to questions on a digital study platform called Osmosis. Before submitting answers to medical questions, students check a box next to “I’m sure,” “Feeling lucky,” or “No clue,” to indicate their confidence in their answers.
The study revealed the following statistics.
- Women checked “I’m sure” for 40 percent of their answers.
- Men checked “I’m sure” 44 percent of the time.
- 81 percent of women who checked “I’m sure” correctly answered the study question.
- 78 percent of men who checked “I’m sure” answered correctly.
- Women checked “No clue” more frequently than men, but gave correct answers equally to men when they answered with “no clue.”
- Women gave slightly more correct answers than men overall.
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