how reliable are eyewitnesses?
83399
As it was said, eye witnesses are horribly unreliable.  Take a simple event in front of 50 people and you'll have 50 different stories.  Even the race and sex of a person can get all mixed up.
334462
Yes they're reliable.  I prefer to buy at the store because of the military discount.
172468
still doesn't mean that they are reliable...
1085419
i dont think so. just what they know frm experience and facts really. i dont fink they can get  right through mine so i guess my answer is maybe not exactly. might get it roughly right but not spot on tho.
186892
Always falsifications are possible. The experts know how to look. The crook can be such an expert.\nThe same with paintings
1117038
Well, it depends on your idea of accurate.  Have people found events to tie his predictions to?  Yes, they have.  But if I write down a bunch of vague generalities, in a few hundred years, I'm sure most of them will have come "true" as well.
198562
You can think of reliability as precision and validity as accuracy.  If you weigh yourself every morning on the scale and every day it says you weight 500 lbs, the result is reliable.  (I'm assuming you don't actually weight that much.)  The result lacks validity because you don't actually weight 500 lbs. If the scale says 150 lbs. every morning (pretend you weigh that much), then the result has both reliability and validity.  You can have reliablility without validity but you can't have valitidy without reliablility!  Hope that helps.
672915
"Eyewitness testimony can be characterized as being highly faulty, as demonstrated through theoretical and experimental knowledge as well as through real life examples, and as this is the case, it should not be the only evidence upon which convictions are based."\n\n"Witness testimony is often presumed to be better than circumstantial evidence. Studies have shown that individual, separate witness testimony is often flawed and parts of it can be meaningless. This can occur because of a person's faulty observation and recollection, because of a person's bias, or because the witness is lying. If several witnesses witness of an event, it is probative to look for similarities in their collective descriptions to substantiate the facts of an event, keeping in mind the contrasts of individual descriptions."
173492
This question has been run into the ground.  The Holocaust of the 1930'and 40's was a factual occurrence in the history of man.  There are to many living witnesses, physical evidence,and documentation to think otherwise.  It does not matter how many times this question is asked, it is not going to make the facts change to meet your needs.
867238
You can find Truth in anything. \nI don't think it's any more reliable than anything else.
715503
It's True. Those are people from another demetion. That's my theory on it anyways. but it IS TRUE. I've seen a ghost, most all of my brothers and sisters have seen ghosts,my mom and finally my dad has saw a ghost.(my deceased sister). No one will ever admit that these things are true and do happen! Your special,That's why you get to see them. You can see the things that are further than your nose ,if you know what I mean. Consider yourself lucky,gifted, and privileged to be trusted   to see stuff like that. So now you know the answer to the big question, "Are THERE REALLY?"
431854
Who's to say they're false?
816255
the tests are reliable.  As for validity, that is another matter open for interpretation.  More info is needed to determine the "purpose" of the testing, who is doing it, who is being tested and what are the consequences.
626821
Yes. Not all of it is true (factual, historical), not all of it is false (fictional, mythical).\n\nCan you handle the truth? or the falsity?
812939
I don't think the lie detector test is that reliable. It could seriously fluctuate at times when the person is telling the truth, and probably do nothing when they're lying... all b/c it's based on the body response. I'd say a "professional" can have the last word on the defendants behavior. Psychologists can be reliable and seriously determine someones actions and behavior and possible future predictions based on facts and what they see and hear.
379495
may be sometimes reliable\nit is based on the person who starts the work
792990
Yes, I did hear that. Do I know it to be true? Dunno. I friggin hope not. Just cause someone says it, doesn't mean that I should take it as truth. This doesn't apply to everything, as all situations are different, but this situation I choose to not believe it. Your question says, "On average...". Average, huh? Then I'll be the one it doesn't happen to...well, maybe just one, but no more! heh. I truly can't say. But then: where the hell did they come up with that stat anyway?