On 9 Feb 2003, at 1:03, Rick Eversole wrote:
> five days ago taking that information and attempting to
> create a composite sketch may have made some sense... now
> with all the publicity any recounts will be subject to the
> human minds ability to fill in plausible gaps ... we need to
> rely on the video and other scientific evidence ... humans
> minds and memories are too easy to confuse over issues of
> exact timing of events (seconds/minutes apart) and visual
> clues that do not fit actual experiences. Psychological
> studies would indicate that we can not and should not rely on
> human memory of a visual event (did you see a 7 on a blue
> background followed by a 6 on a red background or was it the
> other way around)... in this case you are asking for a
> recount of a visual record for which many participants have
> no experiential background (my guess here on experience)
> which means the observations are suspect (sorry guys).
>
Too right (at this point).
What this world needs is a Fair Witness Guild. ;-)
Chris
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