The potential (negative) influence of observational biases at the analysis stage of fingermark individualisation

Informing the judgments of fingerprint analysts using quality metric and statistical assessment tools

“…In other words, as observed in other studies [42][43][44][45], the quantity and quality of ridge detail available in the fingermark drove the minutiae selection process (Kruskal-Wallis, p ( 0.001). In Fig.…”

Discrepancies in expert decision-making in forensic fingerprint examination

“…Experience as a fingerprint examiner, the quality of the latent, and expectations regarding the case being investigated affect examination in challenging and ambiguous decision situations [25]. Fingerprint identification is more vulnerable to internal and external elements and biases when the difficulty of the task increases [23,26]. Consequently, there are frequent occasions in which fingerprint examiners disagree about the same latent.…”

Are there population differences in minutiae frequencies? A comparative study of two Argentinian population samples and one Spanish sample

“…The growing rigor with which forensic evidence is examined in the legislative area has resulted in the need to reconsider some of the basic principles that support forensic disciplines in their recognition as sciences [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38]. In the field of fingerprints, it is necessary to study and analyze the scientific principles that determine the process of individualization in human identification.…”