An undergraduate in arts # 2

Source Text:

However, the very fact that confusing questions caused such problems for college students, who, because of their education, would be expected to be able to cope with such questioning better than members of the general population, amplifies the implications of this experiment. It seems that certain types of lawyers’ questions may have an adverse influence on witness accuracy and create conditions in which the relationship between witness confidence and accuracy is suppressed. (p.93)

Source:

Kebbell, Mark R., Giles, Davis C. “Some Experimental Influences of Lawyer’s Complicated Questions on Eyewitness Confidence and Accuracy” in Academic Reading: reading & writing in the disciplines. Ed. Janet Giltrow. Peterborough ON: Broadview, 2002.

Writer’s Text:

In their research, Kebbels and Giles (2000) found that phrasing questions using confusing-question forms reduces the accuracy of respondents.

Writer’s comment:

Because they didn’t really say anything that strike me as exceptionally good wording that would sound really good in my article, I’m just going to paraphrase and what their findings were and then put in brackets Kebbels and Giles and the date.