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Eyewitness Bbc1 Very Good Documentry
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Well once again a very interesting, possibly very important, programme that no one seems to know about.
Very much like the classic QED / Horizon programmes
Very much like the classic QED / Horizon programmes
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BIB, I don't understand your point.
Yup very good, shame I'm not paying attention to it properly though, distracted by my stomach
Edit proves what I've always thought about eye witness statements, not being worth a carrot a lot of the time.
Even when I was mugged I couldn't remember the blokes faces 2 minutes later.
That's humans for you
How fallible is our original poster?? This doc is on BBC2 not BBC1- not much of on observer huh?:D:D
Do you think it's a sort of attention-seeking, a need to feel important or helpful? How self-unaware was he that he couldn't see he was talking rubbish?
I was talking to my mum on the phone earlier (before the documentary) and she was repeating some story about something I was supposed to have done when I was about 5 or so. I have no memory of doing it (believe me, you would have remembered it if it had happened to you!) and many features of it vary from the last time she told it (a few months ago).
I suspect it was actually my younger brother who did what she was 'remembering' as it sounds like the sort of thing he would do. I'd have been at school at the time (being a few years older) and so wouldn't have seen it.
Funny thing this memory stuff.
Missed more than half of part 2 now.
Linky, part 3 on the 2nd at 23:00.
Just proves how surprisingly fallible the human mind can be.
The witness describing sunglasses for 5 minutes, for example.
I don't remember faces well at all, so I would be useless at viewing an identity parade. I tend to remember numbers and colours better.
Having many witnesses to a crime helps the police piece together the facts. But what happens when the only witness is also the victim? Stephanie Slater was blindfolded during her kidnap but her attacker was caught because police interviewers were able to help her recall the sounds and smells she experienced during her ordeal.
But memory can be easily contaminated. Despite committing his face to memory, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino identified an innocent man as her rapist. He spent 11 years in jail.
Now, British police use cutting-edge techniques designed to collect uncontaminated eyewitness testimony so that they can secure a safe conviction, as in the case of Louise Aird, whose home was broken into during a £2 million art theft.
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Ten people are secretly filmed as they witness what they believe to be a real crime - a knife attack in a Manchester pub. But when they are later interviewed by the police, their memories are radically different to each other's and to what really happened.