Episode 290 - Review of a Bias Research Paper

In this episode, the guys start off with some Michigan Regional Quirkisms. They then review a 2024 paper titled "The effects of cognitive bias, examiner expertise, and stimulus material on forensic evidence analysis" by Michelle Pena, Stephanie Stoiloff, Maria Sparacino, and Nadja Schreiber Compo, from the Journal of Forensic Sciences (2024; 69:1740-1757). The research paper provided lay participants (students) and fingerprint expert participants with images of ground truth, matching and non-matching fingerprint pairs. The researchers controlled the exposure of the participant to contextual case information. Lay participants made a number of errors and seemed to be more impacted by case information compared to experts in these trials. Glenn and Eric discuss why that might be and discuss and compare other studies that might be relevant on this topic. Article: Pena MM, Stoiloff S, Sparacino M, Schreiber Compo N. The effects of cognitive bias, examiner expertise, and stimulus material on forensic evidence analysis. J Forensic Sci. 2024 Sep;69(5):1740-1757. doi: 10.1111/1556-4029.15565. Other Articles Discussed: Tangen, J. M., Thompson, M. B., & McCarthy, D. J. (2011). Identifying fingerprint expertise. Psychological Science, 22(8), 995–997. Langenburg, G., Bochet, F., & Ford, S. (2014). A Report of Statistics from Latent Print Casework. Forensic Science Policy & Management: An International Journal, 5(1–2), 15–37.

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Episode 290 - Review of a Bias Research Paper is an episode from Double Loop Podcast by Glenn Langenburg and Eric Ray.

This episode is 01:18:43 long.

This episode was published on Apr 6, 2026.

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