FRNSC 410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: American Dental Association, Serology, Victims Family
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Frnsc 411 lecture 3 evidence recognition. Post-incident interactions: human activity, person(s) discovering scene, responding personnel, police, fire, and emergency medical service activities. Identification of patterns (spatial and temporal) to establish general rules. Inductive reasoning (fundamental tool of criminalists: prediction of occurrences in specific examples using general rules, deductive reasoning, hypothesis testing defines classical science, necessary to form hypotheses and means to test them, scientific method = framework for hypothesis testing. Pseudoscience: a collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method, pseudoscientist, practitioner of pseudoscience, hallmarks of a pseudoscientist. Impenetrability: refusal to consider alternate hypotheses, cognitive biases, confirmation bias, preference toward information that supports hypothesis, selectively collecting additional evidence. Interpreting evidence in biased manner: congruence bias testing of hypothesis without considering alternate hypotheses, ulterior motives, financial gain, recognition, lack of formal education and training, bandwagon effect. Bunker mentality : confrontation results in claims of persecution and defamation.
