Field Sobriety Tests: Are They Designed for Failure?
| Autor: | Spurgeon Cole, Ronald H. Nowaczyk |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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Predictive validity Automobile Driving Applied psychology Law enforcement Reproducibility of Results Videotape Recording Human factors and ergonomics Poison control Experimental and Cognitive Psychology medicine.disease Suicide prevention Police Sensory Systems Substance Abuse Detection Alcohol intoxication Sobriety Injury prevention Workforce medicine Humans Female Psychology Alcoholic Intoxication |
| Zdroj: | Perceptual and Motor Skills. 79:99-104 |
| ISSN: | 1558-688X 0031-5125 |
| DOI: | 10.2466/pms.1994.79.1.99 |
| Popis: | Field sobriety tests have been used by law enforcement officers to identify alcohol-impaired drivers. Yet in 1981 Tharp, Burns, and Moskowitz found that 32% of individuals in a laboratory setting who were judged to have an alcohol level above the legal limit actually were below the level. In this study, two groups of seven law enforcement officers each viewed videotapes of 21 sober individuals performing a variety of field sobriety tests or normal-abilities tests, e.g., reciting one's address and phone number or walking in a normal manner. Officers judged a significantly larger number of the individuals as impaired when they performed the field so-briery tests than when they performed the normal-abilities tests. The need to reevaluate the predictive validity of field sobriety tests is discussed. |
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