Friday, March 05, 2010

Framing a Question to Skew the Answer

"Witnesses to a car wreck, asked how fast the vehicles were going when they “smashed” into each other, will produce memories of faster speeds than witnesses asked to remember how fast they were going when they 'hit.'[n6] Note 6. Daniel L. Schacter, Searching for Memory 105 (Basic Books, 1996)." (Wallace, "The Puzzle of Memory: Reflections on the Divergence of Truth and Accuracy, 93 Judicature 50 (2009).)

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The dynamic evidence page

It's here: the law of evidence on Spindle Law. See also this post and this post.

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