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<blockquote data-quote="Dave70968" data-source="post: 3129076" data-attributes="member: 13624"><p>For that matter, you could probably just watch <em>Penn & Teller: Fool Us</em> and get what you need.</p><p></p><p>When there are gaps in your perception--and there always are--your brain fills them in. It does so automatically and subconciously. That's not "dishonesty," which requires conscious intent; it's just basic psychology. How it fills them is is a product of your life's experiences, so you and I seeing exactly the same (limited) picture may well come up with different results, neither of which is fully accurate. No ethical failure there, just the brain--a truly magnificent pattern-matching engine--matching patterns as best it can with imperfect information.</p><p></p><p>That's just the honest ones, of course; then you get to the junk-science experts. Look up Dr. Steven Hayne, who did autopsies, and Dr. Michael West, who invented the field of "bite-mark analysis." Radley Balko has a good book on them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave70968, post: 3129076, member: 13624"] For that matter, you could probably just watch [I]Penn & Teller: Fool Us[/I] and get what you need. When there are gaps in your perception--and there always are--your brain fills them in. It does so automatically and subconciously. That's not "dishonesty," which requires conscious intent; it's just basic psychology. How it fills them is is a product of your life's experiences, so you and I seeing exactly the same (limited) picture may well come up with different results, neither of which is fully accurate. No ethical failure there, just the brain--a truly magnificent pattern-matching engine--matching patterns as best it can with imperfect information. That's just the honest ones, of course; then you get to the junk-science experts. Look up Dr. Steven Hayne, who did autopsies, and Dr. Michael West, who invented the field of "bite-mark analysis." Radley Balko has a good book on them. [/QUOTE]
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