14 Measuring the Noise
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result,
one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
Simone Weil
Do you ever stop and think that the way investigators interview eyewitnesses may not be the same as other investigators? You would expect that most investigators would adhere to certain national guidelines to ensure eyewitness statements were reliable and consistent no matter who interviewed them. In this chapter we’ll see how measuring the types of questions asked in an interview can get us closer to learning why decisions were made to ask these types of questions; all we need to do is “measure [the] noise” to see whether investigators ...
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