Miller's 'six pack'

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  Instead of fingerprints, Miller looked at hair sample analysis. He found that hair experts were susceptible to need determination bias when matching a hair at a crime scene to a suspect's hair - saying the evidence matches to get a result. Miller suggests the use of a similar method to a police line-up could reduce bias
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  Instead of giving experts one hair from the crime scene and one from the suspect to compare, he gave them one hair from the crime scene to compare to four fake hiars
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  To test this, Miller got a group of student hair analysts and split them in two groups. One group did the one v one method and the others used the 6 pack method

  • The group using the 6 pack method mode made less false positives when matching hair