Writer+Identification

The main idea of the paper is to study the different ways people write and compare the different ways people write. To do this, they must test several different applicants. These applicants are 100 trainees and professsionals.
 * 1. What is the main idea of the paper?**

Each person was given 30 handwritten documents, all written by the same person. Then they were given a "key" and were asked to find a match, to see if they were written by the same person. This was good science because they used a lot of different applicants, and a wide variety of skills.
 * 2. What experiment, if any, was performed?**
 * 3. Was the experiment GS or BS? That is, was there a large sample size, a cause-and-effect relationship, etc.**

That people with more experience tend to over analze the letters and the less experienced people would make matches to documents that were written by different people. -The group of professionals incorrectly matched ** 6.5% ** of the documents in the unknown packages with documents in the // database // packages. The group of nonprofessionals made this mistake for ** 38.3% ** of the documents in the // unknown // packages.
 * 4. What did the authors determine about forensic graphology?**
 * 5. Name at least five interesting facts from the paper that you think the rest of the class might appreciate**

- Nonprofessionals in our test tended to “over-associate” indiscriminately. As a result they found as many correct matches as the professionals did – but have declared many non-matching pairs to be matches

- Almost all of the professional test-takers that answered our questionnaires were certified by, or were members of, one or more of the following organizations: American Academy of ForensicSciences - Questioned Documents Section; American Board of Forensic DocumentExaminers; Southeastern Association of Forensic Document Examiners; SouthwesternAssociation of Forensic Document Examiners; and the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners.

-While opinions on proficiency of human document examiners still vary, it is widely agreed that testing of professional document examiners and acquiring data on their abilities (compared to those of non-professionals) are necessary

In the actual test nonprofessionals were paid $25 for participation, and $25 for each correct match. The sum of $25 was subtracted for each incorrect match, and $10 was subtracted for each match that was missed. If the final payment was less than $25, the participant received $25.