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Bystander reports are often worth about as much as a deputy's report. People can't remember how things actually happened.
by mod 10y ago
Bystander reports are often worth about as much as a deputy's report.
People can't remember how things actually happened.
- eumoria 10y agoThis is exactly true even people with the best intentions trying to explain exactly what happened in an unbiased way will still screw up a ton of things.
- pixl97 10y agoaka: eyewitness testimony is unreliable because our memory rewrites our memory every time we access it again, our current biases affect how we remember it next time.