A staged robbery. A roomful of witnesses. Yet few correct answers to the question, "Whodunnit?"
A video lays bare the problems with eyewitness testimony: At a recent conference, a robbery was staged, and 83 percent of people in the audience couldn’t identify the right guy in a lineup.
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