Drunk eyewitnesses just as bad as sober ones

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by: Ryan • February 16, 2013 • no comments

This is the type of study that will make you wish you went into academia. Or at least volunteered as a research subject.

In Sweden, some researchers got a bunch of subjects together and got some of them drunk. Everyone then watched a 5 minute video of a crime being committed. A week later, the subjects were asked if they could pick out the culprit.

According to the Washington Post:

Turns out, those who were drunk did just as well as those who saw the same crime scene while sober — which mostly reflects the fact that almost everyone, regardless of level of intoxication, is really bad at picking the right face in a criminal line-up.