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Can You Believe Your Eyes?

CSEF · 2006 Behavioral Sciences

Samantha Flattery, Chiara Perez del Campo · La Colina Junior High School, Santa Barbara

Overview

Objectives/Goals The purpose of this this experiment is to find out which is a more effective method of crime solving, eyewitness accounts or handwriting analysis. Methods/Materials Materials: Camera, Eyewitness questionarre, Parameter Data Key and Microsoft Excel. Procedures: First Experiment: Simualtion of Robbery will occur, Mr.Marchetti will be robbed during class, questionarre will be handed out to 10 people at random, Students will fill out questionarre as accurately as possible, questionarres will be graded. Second Experiment: Students fill out commonly used "London Letter" as an exemplar, Exemplars will be analyzed using a Paramter Data Key. Results will be determined. Results The final results ended up being that eyewitnesses are sixty percent accurate, where as handwriting anaysis turned out to be 99.9999975% accurate. Conclusions/Discussion Handwriting Anlysis is a more effective method of crime solving. As it turns out, I can't believe my eyes.

Summary statement

The discovery of how effective two controversial methods of crime solving are.

Help received

David Marchetti helped with the idea for the experiments.

Awards (1)

  • Category Award

Competition history

  • CSEF 2006 Behavioral Sciences · Entry J0309

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