The unreliability of witness identifications is now widely known, but Garrett was surprised to discover how flagrantly unreliable the procedures were in the cases he examined.
After filtering unreliable CNV calls, we discovered a total of 3624 CNV events (3416 losses and 208 gains), with an average number of 14.16 CNV events per individual.
The DNA traces on the knife, which were discovered by police in Sollecito's kitchen, appeared "unreliable in as much as [they were] not supported by scientifically validated analytic procedures", the experts' report said.
Many working on this project hold that the empirically discovered variation in intuitions gives us reason to believe that intuitions are unreliable (Alexander et al. 2010).
Foos is unreliable: for example, he claimed that he began spying on motel guests in 1966; Talese discovered that he didn't purchase the motel until 1969, but never apparently investigated that inconsistency, either.
For example, we recently discovered that relevant analysts in the community missed a notice that identified a source that we had cited as providing information that in some cases was unreliable and in other cases fabricated.
To spend 15 hours over three days riding Wagner's elevators is to discover what tenants already know: In buildings with unreliable elevators, life itself becomes unreliable.
It is possible that cognitive science will discover that in some or all of these cases our beliefs result from bizarre, thoroughly unreliable, deviant causal chains.
Imagine discovering that the narrator whom you have come to rely on for the truth of a story has been an unreliable source the whole time!
