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Growns, Bethany; Towler, Alice; Dunn, James D.; Salerno, Jessica M.; Schweitzer, N. J.; Dror, Itiel E. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2022
Forensic science practitioners compare visual evidence samples (e.g. fingerprints) and decide if they originate from the same person or different people (i.e. fingerprint 'matching'). These tasks are perceptually and cognitively complex--even practising professionals can make errors--and what limited research exists suggests that existing…
Descriptors: Crime, Evidence, Sampling, Statistics Education