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Your Checklist Is Making You Worse: Why Pilots Use Checklists and Paramedics Don't
· 1 h 07 min · Episode 123 · Explicit
Episode Your Checklist Is Making You Worse: Why Pilots Use Checklists and Paramedics Don't
A checklist should reduce cognitive load. So why does yours make things worse? Airline pilot and safety officer Glenn Fisher breaks down how aviation refined checklists over decades of crash data and human factors research — from verification-only flows to abnormal read-and-do procedures to defining the criteria for what should actually earn a spot on the card.
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