Dror 2006: Collection And Processing Of Evidence Flashcards

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Dror 2006 participants

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5 fingerprint experts
Consented to be studied in the next 12 months as part of their everyday work

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Dror 2006 procedure

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Each ps was approached by a colleague asked to examine a pair of fingerprints ( which was a pair they had previously 5 years earlier recorded as a definite match )
The context was manipulated by telling them the prints were a pair of prints that had been wrongly identified by the fbi and the ps were given the expectation the fingerprints would not match

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Dror 2006 result

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80% wrongly contradicted their original decision of the prints after being told the fbi wrongly determined them as matching

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