From ktstar1
May. 15th, 2006 10:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hjsnapepm1. Grab the nearest book with a blue cover.
2. Open the book to page 86.
3. Find the first full paragraph.
4. Post the text in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find, just the closest blue book.
It appears that most of the blue-covered books I own are forensic books of some kind. I never noticed that before...
'It is odd that fingerprint examiners themselves have not been able to accept these conclusions, perhaps fearing that their subject would be seen as being unscientific if they did so. But this is to miss the point completely. Although one cannot attach any great significance to the number of matching points in two fingerprints, one can measure the probability of a fingerprint examiner arriving at the correct answer. This is perfectly respectable and scientific. It does not matter how fingerprint examiners arrive at their conclusions, as long as studies show that they are almost always correct.'
2. Open the book to page 86.
3. Find the first full paragraph.
4. Post the text in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find, just the closest blue book.
It appears that most of the blue-covered books I own are forensic books of some kind. I never noticed that before...
'It is odd that fingerprint examiners themselves have not been able to accept these conclusions, perhaps fearing that their subject would be seen as being unscientific if they did so. But this is to miss the point completely. Although one cannot attach any great significance to the number of matching points in two fingerprints, one can measure the probability of a fingerprint examiner arriving at the correct answer. This is perfectly respectable and scientific. It does not matter how fingerprint examiners arrive at their conclusions, as long as studies show that they are almost always correct.'