The low prevalence effect in fingerprint comparison amongst forensic science trainees and novices

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The low prevalence effect in fingerprint comparison amongst forensic science trainees and novices

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The low prevalence effect is a phenomenon whereby target prevalence affects performance in visual search (e.g., baggage screening) and comparison (e.g., fingerprint examination) tasks, such that people more often fail to detect infrequent target stimuli. For example, when exposed to higher base-rates of ‘matching’ (i.e., from the same person) than ‘non-matching’ (i.e., from different people) fingerprint pairs, people more often misjudge ‘non-matching’ pairs as ‘matches’–an error that can fals...

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Date created

2022

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Dunn JD / Helm RK / Towler A / Kukucka J / Growns, Bethany

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https://hdl.handle.net/10092/105037

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Psychology / Cognitive and computational psychology / Sensory processes, perception and performance / Memory and attention / Human society / Criminology / Technology, crime and surveillance

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