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RESEARCH ARTICLE

there in the line-up.
Another set of subjects were asked a polar question - “Can you tell if the

suspect from the video is there in the line-up?” giving them a choice to
answer yes or no.

The answers from both sets of groups were noted down along with their

age and what they focused on when seeing the video. The experiment was
conducted on Indians and the video and photo shown had suspects who

were also Indians.

From these two experiments the questions we hoped to answer were:

1. Does the method of questioning affect the rate of misidentification?
2. Does race play a role in misidentification?

3. Is eyewitness testimony reliable?

RESUL
TS
RESULTS

EXPERIMENT 1
EXPERIMENT 1

Misidentified

Did not misidentify

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