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Sorting mug shots: methodological issues

✍ Scribed by Sean Pryke; R. C. L. Lindsay; Joanna D. Pozzulo

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Weight: 139 KB
Volume: 14
Category: Article
ISSN: 0888-4080
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0720(200001)14:1<81::aid-acp624>3.0.co;2-z

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✦ Synopsis

Previous mug shot sorting studies demonstrated that several techniques can successfully retrieve pictures using descriptions or similarity judgements (Shepherd, 1986;Levi et al., 1995). No study has compared the eectiveness of descriptions to similarity judgements for this task and the existing studies report their results in ways that limit comparison across studies. An experiment (N 96) is reported that replicates the eectiveness of both methods, supports sorting by description as superior, and oers suggestions for reporting results using a common metric.