A child of the Southwest and of the 50s -- a woman who knew me well once said, 'Yeah, the 1850s.' Generally culturally conservative and distrustful of new and improved innovative change. Very seldom overtly serious, but many a truth is spoke in jest and all of my truths are. Worked my way through UT when I was up in my 30s. If I'd, by some horrible miscalculation ended up in Bryan, I would've worked my way through that school over there. Have worked all over in printing and publishing. I've held a bunch of jobs and quit all of them but one. I am a journeyman printer and followed the trade and heard its dying gasps as it was throttled by technological change. I had a sponsored blog on a newspaper but quit the job.
Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable, even though jurors will often give it credence. To find out something about your lying eyes, go here and take the awareness test.
I have seen this before, and it always reminds me that we don't see everything we think we see.
The irony of this to me is that some of the largest studies on this topic were conducted using police officers. Using both real critical incidents as well as staged incidents, the overwhelming result is that even cops giving eyewitness accounts vary quite a bit in those recollections.
And cops are usually the first ones to gather info from 'eyewitnesses'.
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I have seen this before, and it always reminds me that we don't see everything we think we see.
The irony of this to me is that some of the largest studies on this topic were conducted using police officers. Using both real critical incidents as well as staged incidents, the overwhelming result is that even cops giving eyewitness accounts vary quite a bit in those recollections.
And cops are usually the first ones to gather info from 'eyewitnesses'.
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