The Frankfurter School

Hot Potato Mash has a great post about a video that is popular on YouTube of a public service announcement from the UK warning people to keep a look out for cyclists:

He smartly links the clever lesson from the video to the massive problems in our criminal justice system with false eyewitness testimony, which happens at an alarmingly high rate.

[the] numbers are highly problematic when, contrary to conventional wisdom, studies show error rates as high as 50% when people are asked to identify people they saw for a relatively short period of time. Worse, wrongful identification skyrockets (70% in one study) when people are asked to identify a person of a different race.

Hot Potato Mash: Awareness Test