Frances Glessner Lee. What a force of nature!
I would like to try solving the nutshell studies, but they don't seem to have been digitized.
It might make a nice temporary online community to digitize and reveal one nutshell per month.
I suppose it might undermine their use in education to have a public answer for each of them, however.
>Lee’s goal was to eliminate human bias from death investigations. “[F]ar too often the investigator ‘has a hunch,’ and looks for and finds only the evidence to support it, disregarding any other evidence that may be present,” she wrote in an article for a criminology journal. “This attitude would be calamitous in investigating an actual case.”
But that's how Columbo[0] solves almost every case, using the perpetrator's over-reliance on "other evidence that may be present" against them.
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I wonder how Lee would respond to the allegations that many parts of forensic science are actually junk science.
https://www.propublica.org/article/understanding-junk-scienc...
The innocence project is rather pointed example of how many times forensic science has been used improperly to sentence people to death.