FSC239Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Physical Therapy, Toner, Comparator
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Forensics document examiner: conducts a technical examination of a document to determine its authenticity and. /or its relationship to a person, thing, event or time. Is the document genuine: does the document been changed in any way. Can we decipher the original entry: which person or machine wrote or produced the document. Must be able to prove: request. Voluntary for purpose for handwritten exam: collected. Done in usual course of business/social activity. Handwriting: a learned behaviour that becomes habitual, a complex motor skill. Controlled by the brain through a network of connections between sensory and motor areas. Never going to write the same thing exactly the same. Handwriting comparisons: based on the theory that no two people write alike. Fish, cedar, twin studies, durina study: empirical error rate data show high false positives with lay persons. Don"t have enough note samples: conclusion. Question written in cursive, and known written in block.
