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Reconstruction of Automobile destruction Elizabeth F. Loftus and John C. Palmer (1974) People are not good at reporting numerical details, such as time, speed and distance (Bird 1927). Marshall (1969) found that subjects gave speed estimates ranging between 10 and 50 mph for a car travelling at 12mph! The more complex the event the more likely the time taken for the event to happen will be over-estimated. (Block 1974) Because people are poor at estimating they can be easily influenced by questioning, for example. In courts of law leading questions can not be asked. Fillmore (1971) found that the words `hit' and `smashed' could affect the estimated speed. Experiment 1 Method 45 students Could there be a bias? Think in terms of generalisability, or are they just trying to please their teacher? 7 films from the local safety council and police 5 - 30 second film clips, of car accidents. Not really like a real accident, therefore...

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