PSYC 162 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Firing Pin, Elizabeth Loftus, Response Bias
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Week 7: jury selection, judges and juries as decision-makers. The nas is a private, non-profit society of distinguished scholars that was established by an act of congress, signed by president abraham lincoln in 1863. Charged with providing independent, objective advice to the nation on matters related to science and technology. A 2009 report (strengthening forensic science in the united states: a path forward) called into question most of these forms of forensic evidence (excluding dna evidence) Fbi admits flaws in hair analysis over decades. Microscopic hair comparisons cannot uniquely identify one person. We do not know the proportion of people in the general population who have the same hair characteristicss. 1880: dr henry faulds published the first paper on the subject in the journal nature. Returning to the uk in 1886, he offered the concept to the metropolitan police in london but it was dismissed.
