How To Make Eyewitness Testimony More Reliable
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- Опубліковано 23 вер 2018
- Eyewitness testimony can be really important when investigating crimes, but how can we make them more reliable?
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Hank: What color is the Pillsbury Dough-boy's scarf?
Me: He has a Scarf?!
As a non American I was more like, "who the F is the Pillsbury Dough-boy"
I thought the same thing! :)
I knew he had a hat...
Haha, I was like uhhh the Michelan Man?
Red?
Shout "Objection!" at them enough times until they start to breakdown and confess on the spot.
Or you can shoot truth bullets at them
Joke's on you, hank, I thought the scarf was blue BEFORE you said it! That's right, I was preemptively incorrect! Checkmate.
1. It's more of an ascot, than a scarf.
2. Pillsbury has released cookie jars, salt & pepper shakers, dolls and other things with a blue ascot on the doughboy.
I'm pretty sure I've seen this before. I'd be willing to say so under oath. I remember, because my fav part was when the Velociraptor danced with Hank.
*Hank* is clearly very _hungry_ and wants to eat _lunch_
Today I Learned... That Hank frequently gets his lunch mixed up with others and eats someone else's lunch.
Today I learned where those missing eggs went
Should tell my roommate I have proof it wasn't me at all
It's an excellent way to try new lunches. Or a terrible way if you're the person missing their lunch >.>
I honestly would not trust eye-witness testimony as the crucial piece of evidence in a case if it wasn't super clear cut. Human memory is very spotty and extremely malleable to bias, emotions and priming. There must always be other pieces of evidence. Human memory and perception can't be trusted IMHO.
I think is it also worth noting that many people who work in courts are aware of this for better and worse. Really scary honestly
I actually go to a university with a professor who studies Eye Witness memory (Professor Wixted). To sum it all up, Eye Witness Memory is reliable, however, it has to be during the first head shot test, before memory becomes modified. He keeps finding that those who are at least 80-100% confident of their assaulter during the first suspect line-up, were >80% correct in their guess. However, if you were less confident in the first one about the same exact person, but then slowly feel that it's the right individual, then that's where the fault is where it's at. I recommend reading some his work, it's really interesting! I've personally participated in a lot of his experiments and his classes, and it's not as bad as people think it is. It's really bad once it becomes contaminated.
@@BunbunFell this is great information. Thank you so much. I will look into it and see what the data say.
Unless it’s against someone we don’t like of course
Obviously, that goes without saying.
Our brains are so weird! The study about changing the words hit or smashed is so interesting. It is awesome we can perform studies on the brain and find out more about it! Keep going! I love these videos and learning about our complex mind! And as they say in my hometown, DFTBA!
Reminds me of the "DO/DON'T/TRY Experiment"
But the Pillsbury Doughboy's scarf was, at one point, blue. It was changed to white more recently.
Did you hear about the eye witness’s account on the crime in the car park?
It was wrong on so many levels... 😉
Saw what you did there.. Multi-level carpark
haha, you're my kind of commentor Hanif ;)
I legitimately thought the Pillsbury Dough Boy's scarf was blue before he even mentioned the color
It's the Mandela Effect, he didn't put the idea in your head. If you haven't heard of the Mandela Effect then I suggest you research it; the Pillsbury Dough Boy's scarf is actually a specific example used by those who believe in the phenomenon.
@@agentmothman5343 Its one of the dumbest theories anyone has every come up with though. And hinges on the idea that people's memories are more reliable than the objective universe itself.
wtf is that even referring to? i was super confused about that in the video
I was yelling out White long before he mentioned any color.
Foot Lettuce That's ridiculous lol. The misconception is obviously because the Pillsbury doughboy has other blue features and one would expect his scarf to be blue since it fits the color scheme. Some people also probably confuse him with stay puft marshmallow man, who has a blue collar around his neck. It's probably a combination of the two considering how Ghostbusters is still popular
i participated in a week long law enforcement camp in 9th grade and the presentation guy pretended that he didn’t have the hard drive for the presentation, said he’d be right back, another guy walked in and confidently picked up a duffel bag from the corner of the room, left, and the presentation guy came back in and was like “i forgot, it was in my duffel bag” and asked us if we saw who took it and like none of us could accurately describe the guy
Loftus&Palmer... so glad I did OCR Psychology
I can't describe Hank's wardrobe, but whenever I see this shirt, I remember it from other videos and its one of my favorites. But how can it be my favorite when I don't remember any of the other shirts?
Absolutely love your channels and content !
Thank for the insightful video..👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻😊It was really interesting..😇😇
The crazy thing is that human memory isn't designed around attribution. We defer to social pressure when forming and recalling memories. If people are made to imagine detailed scenarios, we have a tendency to believe they happened. And then there's the whole Satanic panic thing.
I had forgotten that the Pillsbury Doughboy _had_ a scarf.
I thought BLUE SCARF before you said it. Not because you suggested it obviously, but because I was picturing the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man instead of the Pillsbury Doughboy. :P
Cool study found that alcohol can increase recall accuracy but only if they had consumed alcohol when they were witnessing the event originally.
I can't recognize the face of someone I've spent hours talking with.
Please never make me have to participate in a line-up.
Hank Green watches Bob's Burgers
I said blue before you said blue, you didn't put anything in my head
What a wonderful shirt.
I mistook the Stay Puft Marshmello man for the Pillsbury Dough Boy.
Wait wasn't that the Michelin man?
This is where the criminal system could start, so many new studies support this.
If it is an honest mistake write your name in large letters on the bag, or have your lunch in a unique container. If theft, maybe a secret ingredient chocolate pudding with a warning note is in order.
Anyone else notice how his shirt changed halfway through the show? Thought that was pretty awesome!
I don't know. I mostly had the video on in the background and couldn't tell you what color his eye glasse were.
Are u tryna trick us? Lmao
what is the best solution when eyewitness information descrepancies and contradiction emerged?
the Pillsbury dough-boy dose sometimes wear a blue neckerchief
The easy failing of the human memory is why I label and store all my stuff at my flat and work carefully and keep a lot of it separate from everyone else. They think I'm just being paranoid but I know that they could easily mix up my lunch with theirs.
Or vice-versa really.
You're being paranoid.
I have a near photographic memory. It takes a while to develop. (yes, old) ;)
I swear I saw him doing it!
I KNOW IT!
Spicy_ Riker yes, I took the cookie from the cookie jar.
I was hungry and cookies are soooo goooood, please don’t take my phone! 😖
Last Shadow Nah, it’s ok...
I've said in the past that I didn't really like it whenever y'all got political... However I don't feel the same way now. This video is obviously referring to current events and I believe that it was handled perfectly. Well done
Hey nice shirt hank
your lunch was good
Hank, when you said "...especially when to comes to missing lunches...it happens to me a lot..."
Which happens "a lot?"
When lunches come up missing, is it:
A.) "YOUR" lunches come up missing
or
B.) Lunches come up missing BECAUSE you're snaggin & consumin them?!?
Hmmmmm?!?!
😂 HAHAHAHA 😂
It seems this relies on usually civilian eyewitnesses being sure they're always in the frame of mind to properly record events. This is less helpful to justice departments who can't necessarily control how alert everyone is.
Couldn’t it just be that people don’t trust themselves? Like maybe their memory actually works but they lack confidence.
This video shows us that out gut instinct is great at identifying the culprit. I noticed the same trend with taking test. My gut first choice tends to be correct.
Oh look, confirmation bias.
@@StefanTravis Just take a look at his name :P
Because all those studies and training that reveal how much (unconscious) biases affect 'gut instinct'
I'm fairly confident in that I tend to forget everything.
Larry, quit stealing lunches!
Also, I didn't believe you when you said it was blue because the packaging for Pillsbury is usually blue. I assumed it was red
What the video doesn't have is any proposed reform to a legal system to make eyewitness testimony more reliable. I'd be interested in hearing about that. I sometimes feel like every case with important disputed eyewitness evidence should have an expert on this stuff as an expert witness, but I can see that there'd be a lot of practical difficulties with that.
That shirt though
heh... I was thinking white before you said blue and made me question myself.
this is why you don't plant information in your questions.
yeah the Loftus experiments make me question reality.
Objection Your Honor
This is how the Mandela Effect can be debunked!!
You took the launch Hank! Turn around so we see your neck tattoo
There is a large ginite number of experts, too bad there was no linked in or scishow subgroup that brought them together for discussions? Hmm??
I 100 percent believed that pillsbury doughboy wore a blue scarf.. right?
pillsbury doughboy will remember this.
Is it just me or have I watched this video a long time ago?
Which California State University? There's 23.
Why does the guy on the thumbnail lowkey looks like Brandon Roger?
Hasn't Hank covered this before?
Yeah i think i have already watched this
It might be the exact same video... Maybe reupload? Or am i going crazy now?
I wonder how much of this can be applied to traumatic events. The very nature of most PTSD patients is the event playing over and over again to the point of dysfunction in daily activities.
I'm sure the memory still alters sometimes. Or at least amplifies.
Reminds me of the mandela effect
Let's be honest, it must've been Bernice...
There's one flaw I can see with the "hit - smashed" car test:
They were watching a video. You're not going to so easily recall details from memory if it doesn't have an effect on you. If they were at an actual accident, they would feel shocked, or scared, or something more than a video could give you. We don't so easily remember the Pillsbury doughboy's scarf colour because he didn't break into our neighbors house and steal their TV.
Still a useful test for what it found, and for details that you wouldn't "manually" dedicate to memory, such as the brand of tissue paper in the back seat of the car in the accident, this works. I just think they should find a way to test for memory under stress as well, since your mind is working extra hard on remembering things.
what you just described is called a lack of ecological validity. its a common problem in psychology studies because it's generally considered unethical to put participants under real distress or through real trauma, so psychologists have to sacrifice things like mundane realism in order for their study to be considered ethical.
however, shock and anxiety also severely affect eye witness testimony. truth be told EWT is just unreliable in so many ways but it's our only option besides letting criminals run rampant.
Just implement the Sibyl system.
I'm beginning to think that these studies are actually studying a specific subtype of people, undergrads
Having had in depth training for law enforcement and investigation, this is why eyewitness testimony is garbage in court. As humans, we miss a lot and even what we do remember is subject to bias and improper recollection.
So... Hank made this video so he could have plausible deniability when his employees' lunches go missing? 🤔
i miss muscle hank
Now why would we want to solve crime?
Pretend you're Daredevil?
Stop stealing Hank's lunch, people. He's thin enough as it is.
WRITE IT DOWN
*COUGH* sexual assault allegations *COUGH*
Hank, do you want me to just buy you a new lunch instead of you getting all mad about it.
Let's let all the prisoners out.
:D
Vu en cognitive.
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