FORENSIC FOCUS - Biased brains
Jane's Police Review, 4 June 2008
http://jpr.janes.com
"How is it possible that highly skilled and professional police forensic experts make mistakes?Examination of evidence by forensic examiners, investigations by detectives, or considering which action to take as police constables, all have one thing in common: they rely heavily on human thought processes and the brain. Thought processes and perception are far from perfect because the way people internally understand, interpret, evaluate and judge information highly depends on how thought processes are structured and brain mechanisms."