Neil deGrasse Tyson On The Flaws Of Eyewitness Testimony 😅

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[MiloMurphysLaw]

“You were eye witness 20 seconds ago and you got it wrong” is such a perfect example to prove his point.

[madmikev]

I was a juror for two weeks on a shooting outside a local club and the thing that astounded me the most was how every single witness had a vastly different recollection of the events from every other witness!

[phillipstubbs]

I served on jury duty one time.. There couldn't
be a pool of people less qualified than the
people that was on this jury

[davidfuchs]

So the judge is eliminating jurors who would fail to convict based solely on one eye witness? That's wrong. The judge should not be allowed to ask questions like that.

[NuttyTheKidd]

“you were an eyewitness 20 seconds ago and you’d got it wrong”

sums up our justice system well honestly…

[kenarbes]

My mom served on a jury in Idaho back in the 1980's. A farmer bought an irrigation system to upgrade his farm, and it didn't work. He hadn't kept the old one. The other jurors thought the farmer deserved to lose the case. Mom asked them if they keep their old car when they get a new one just in case the new car doesn't work. They said no. That argument was enough for the jurors to see what idiots they were. Farmer won the case, but my mom was disgusted at the lack of intelligence of her fellow jurors.

[mt]

When I was in police school, our instructor did an experiment. While in class one day, he had a person run into te room, grab an object off of his desk at the front of the room and run out. Right after that, he told us to describe the man, and identify what was taken. Which was an apple.

There were 10 people in the class, and he got 10 different descriptions of the person, in clothing, height, race, hair and so on. No one ever got the entire description correct.All of us had parts of the description, but no one had the complete description. It was after that demonstration that I started to disbelieve eyewitness. I would need other evidence to convict. Especially if it were a death case. I would never send someone to death, or to life on eyewitness testimony alone. Neil is correct.

[Bokkiek]

Science: eye witness is the worst evidence
Courts: eye witness is the best evidence

[luisderivas]

Frankly, the Judge shouldn't be allowed to favorably stack the jury by asking such a prejudicial question. If the case is so weak, that only single witness testimony is available, it should be kicked back to the prosecutors office for re-evaluation.

[alexandermontanez]

Our system is so corrupt you get kicked from jury duty for being a responsible juror.

[ChaceDrives]

being rejected from jury duty is the best feeling ever.

[rohitbhushan]

This is why the scientific ways of thinking needs to be incorporated in every field.

[Buckeyebrotherhood]

We need people like that in every jury.

[leborhal]

Anyone who has ever served jury duty... should know... its a wildly flawed system.

[fabulousinflorida]

I sat in jury trials for 15 years covering them as a news reporter. I can’t tell you how many times I was surprised by guilty verdicts on very little evidence, particularly eyewitness testimony. When I spoke with bailiffs, who were the only ones to go in and out of the jury rooms during deliberation other than jurors, I was shocked to hear that some juries didn’t spend ANY time going over the evidence. They’d come to a consensus vote right away and then sit in the room for however long they thought “looked good”. We’re talking murder trials here with 20-life sentences on the table.

[justinminer]

Having Tyson as a juror would be a career game over for the world's best lawyers 😂

[carlytrammell]

I took sociology freshman year. One day a guy ran into the room and stole our professor's purse. She told everyone to stop and write down a description of what we just saw. In a class of almost 200 not even two people described the "thief" in the same generic description. Completely changed my mind about eyewitness testimony.

[K.Dilkington]

A lawyer was telling me once that they never want to choose a person with any sort of high level credentials for juries, engineers, doctors, etc, because the other jurors will basically look to that one person for answers and not think for themselves.

[adrpals]

I was a juror in a malpractice. I'm an electronics technician. I had no idea what they were talking about. Thank god there were 2 nurses that were jurors too. They explained it better than the lawyers.

[HunterAnsorge-okjk]

A deputy told me they didn’t arrest my attacker because I never took a class to know what an attack was…