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Police should use caricatures to identify criminals

Submitted by John Jones on Tue, 2007-11-27 18:52

caricature of Arnold Schwarzenegger by Glenn Ferguson

The Guardian is reporting that a study by Charlie Frowd, Vicki Bruce, David Ross, Alex McIntyre, and Peter J. B. Hancock at the University of Central Lancashire published in Visual Cognition found that subjects were able to identify a caricature of a person’s face 40% of the time, but could only identify the same face in a police sketch 20% of the time.

via Boing Boing

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