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jeno driving whilst on his phone is so funny cuz yeah we all do it but brother ur being recorded 😭

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Sell me on a heroine!

Goodreads recommends books to me based on the shelves I've set up.  One of those shelves is "heroines" for books with female leads.  So, I have a list of  what the Goodreads hive mind thinks are good books with heroines.  

Some of these I have looked at before, others I have never heard of.  So let's have a sales fest.  I'll list a selection, and if you have read and liked any of these books , comment with why you think it has a good female lead character.

Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow

Battle Angel Alita by Yukito Kishiro

FreakAngels by Warren Ellis

Wish by CLAMP

Comics Squad: Recess! by Jennifer L. Holm

The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan

The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks

Queen and Country by Greg Rucka

Atomic Robo and the Fightin' Scientists of Tesladyne by Brian Clevinger 

Ouran High School Host Club by Bisco Hatori

Hmm, heavy on the manga there.  If you want more choices, let me know and I'll post the next ten.

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2.1.3 Making a case, Interviewing Witnesses, Cognitive interview

Background

Up until the 1970's there was little to no police training for interviewing witnesses. This lead to standard interview techniques with the interviewer could interrupt the witnesses which could lead to information being put into their schema.

Cognitive interviews involves the witness being asked about the context and mood of the situation, telling the story backwards etc.

Kohnken showed that cognitive interviews are 40% more accurate than standard interviews.

Study - Fisher et al

Field experiment with 16 real detectives from Florida, each interviewing real witnesses,

Some detectives used standard interviewing techniques while some used cognitive.

Their interviews were recorded for the next 7 months.

They were transcribes by a team blind to the conditions and only the responses to the questions were given.

Results - > More information was gained through cognitive interviews and the extra information was not incorrect.

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2.1.2 Making a Case, Interviewing Witnesses, Factors influencing accurate identification

Background

We invent or reconstruct memories from our schema.

Originally, eyewitnesses were considered infallible with an experiment showing that the jury was still willing to base a verdict on an eyewitness' account, even if the eyewitness had poor sight and was not wearing glasses.

Research shows that we also have 40% less recall when having experienced a traumatic event.

The is because humans have a selective-attention filter influenced by the context of the situation.

Study - Loftus et al

Lab experiment with 36 students from the University of Washington.

All participants were shown slides of a series of events in a taco restaurant.

In the control group, the second person in the queue hands over a cheque. In the experimental group, the second person in the queue pulls a gun on the cashier.

They were asked to identify the person from a 12 person line up.

Results -> The control group were more successful at correctly identifying the suspect.

Eye-fixation data -> 3.72 fixations on the gun

                                2.44 fixations on the cheque

This shows increased attentional narrowing when a weapon is present.

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2.1.1 Making a Case, Interviewing Witnesses, Recognising and recreating faces by E-fit

Background

A man named Dr. Donald Thompson was accused of rape.

Just before the rape had occurred, the woman had been watching a TV interview which had had featured in.

The woman had confused his face with that of the rapist creating  a false memory.

Gestalt suggests that we remember faces as a whole; we start with the whole faces and then details emerge and therefore facial composites do not reflect the way that memory works.

Study - Bruce et al

Independent measures design.

Three conditions:

Complete composites

Internal features only

External composites

The participants were given 10 photos of celebrities and were asked to match the composites to the celebrity from the 40 composites given.

Results -> 42% of complete composites and of external features were sorted correctly. Only 19.5% of external composites were matched correctly.

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The Doors: "Waiting For The Sun" (Morrison Hotel, 1970)

Let's talk about The Doors.

I like the Doors. They have music I love and music I think is terrible. In high school, I loved them--they are exactly the kind of band you like in high school. The craziness, the seriousness, the implied gravity of the post-Beatnik poetry spouted by the doomed frontman... all of that feels right when you're in your teens. The actual substance of that poetry hardly matters at all--the important thing is that he means it.

Hearing the Doors today makes me think of high school and what I was like as a music fan back then. This is the central reason I've decided to excavate the cassettes I taped off the radio--to see if I can figure out how I developed as a listener and where certain changes might have taken place.

The Doors bring me back to two specific people. One is my friend Matt, who was my best friend from some time around third grade until we became slowly estranged toward the end of high school (long story--I hope to see him again some day). I have one particularly vivid memory of the two of us, listening to an LP of Strange Days and kind of freaking out over "Horse Latitudes."

We had gone over to his house directly from a meeting of our high school's literary magazine, at which we both read some of own poetry. His was better than mine--Matt had a really direct line to something pretty deep inside himself that came out in his writing, whereas I was always more of a stylist. He had the feeling first; I had the idea first. Anyway, if I recall correctly, these LPs had been his uncle's (I think some were his parents', too--there was a Carpenters LP that didn't fit the uncle's profile), and Matt had gone through a few of them. Strange Days was the one he chose to play for me.

I don't think I responded much to what Morrison was saying--the poetry of "Horse Latitudes" is pretty impenetrable (what on Earth is "mute nostril agony" anyway?), but the crazily woozy soundscape that shifts around behind him while he yells was definitely my kind of thing.

The other place The Doors take me back to is the passenger seat of my friend Barbra's Volkswagen. Barbra lived down the street from me (a little over a mile away--"down the street" has a different meaning out in the sticks), and she was two years ahead of me. I liked her a lot, not in the sense of a crush or anything, but more in the sense that I respected her and enjoyed talking to her. She was intelligent and enthusiastic and seemed to completely lack the sullen streak of a lot of the people I hung out with regularly.

There was a community service group that ran out of our school--it may have been related to the National Honor Society? Barbra was, for a year, in charge of getting people together to work at a soup kitchen in Rockville, and I was one of the regular volunteers. None of us knew much about cooking, but it was easy enough to make a few gallons of donated Annie's Shells And Cheddar and we handled it okay. The kitchen was run by an immigrant with visa problems that were coming to a head right around the time I graduated. I hope things worked out for him.

Anyway, Barbra had three favorite bands: Led Zeppelin, the Doors and Pink Floyd. I wasn't old enough to drive, so I caught rides to the soup kitchen with her. I remember that the radio stayed on after she turned the car off--you had to turn it off independently. But these three bands were what we listened to. We connected over Pink Floyd on the school bus before she got her license, but my feelings toward the other two bands were much more ambivalent.

I liked a lot of music by both of them but didn't think of myself as a fan. I remember one time, when the car had been turned off but the radio hadn't, "Touch Me" was playing, and we somehow got to talking about what we liked and didn't like about the Doors. For me, Jim Morrison was the only thing that ever gave me problems. It wasn't the content of his lyrics, though--it was his showmanship, for lack of a better term. I didn't particularly like the little "yeahs" and "uhns" he threw in. But for Barbra, those were some of the best parts of the music.

I'll not speculate on our reasons for these preferences (well, mine was simple--Pink Floyd were my point of comparison for everything, and their instrumental breaks tended to be free of vocal dynamite, so I think it turned me off because it wasn't what I was used to), but I thought it was interesting that we saw the same thing so differently. I think it was also the first time that I ever worried I might have offended someone by disliking something they held dear.

I came around on the Doors and the showmanship issue over the next year or so. I got a bunch of their albums, and outside of The Soft Parade generally liked them. I gravitated toward their weirder tendencies--Waiting For The Sun was my favorite LP of theirs.

Weird thing about Waiting For The Sun: though it was recorded around the same time as that LP, the title track didn't come out until two years later, when it appeared on Morrison Hotel, the band's bluesy retreat from the experimentation of The Soft Parade. I think "Waiting For The Sun," the song, is the Doors at their best and most distinctive--it's because of songs like this that they get a new chance with each succeeding generation.

I have no idea what kind of keyboard Ray Manzarek is playing on this song, but that weird, distorted tone is something I've never heard on another record. I think Robby Kreiger's guitar playing in 1967 and 1968 was some of the most interesting going in the rock world, and this is an example of that. His psychedelic bottleneck playing has its own kind of personality to counter the outsize persona of Jim Morrison, who here sings more like a part of the band and less like a guy trying to break out of the band.

Last night, I asked for some of your opinions of The Doors. I'll be sharing some of those and talking about them over the course of the day as I have time.