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Show Telling Fake Fingerprints Difficult Even for Expert A scientist recently proved that the average fingerprint expert cannot distinguish a genuine print, or one mads by the fingei itsetf, from a forged print, or one transferred from an object, says Collier's. Eight experts were asked to teD which of four identical privits on a card were made by the two methods. meth-ods. Only three of the men correctly cor-rectly named all four, but later admitted they did it by guessing. The other five experts, incidentally, inci-dentally, called more genuine prints forged than forged prints genuine. |