Human Superpowers: Facial Recall

[DOUCHEaine PhD]

10/21/2015
From: Anthony Holloway
Subject: Human-to-human facial recognition performance
"We have teamed up with two of the nation’s premier researchers in this field of study, Dr. Brad Duchaine of Dartmouth College and Dr. Laura Germine of Harvard University, to test all of our employees...All employees, sworn and civilian, are required to take the test by Friday, November 6, 2015."

Brad Duchaine uses science to worm his way into anti-popo politics
http://www.wired.com/2006/11/blind/
Excerpt: Brad Duchaine says the implications are far-reaching. He believes, for example, that the Transportation Safety Administration should administer tests to make sure all airport passenger screeners can match faces with IDs. And the reliability of eyewitness identification should be reconsidered in the courtroom. "You'd want to know if the witness was drunk, right?" Duchaine says. "Well, we should also know if they're face blind." [F'in ignoramous jumping to conclusions about blind popo, and how he needs to lead the charge. And get more public funding for his re$earch projects. Law enforcement agencies want to know if psychologist Brad Duchaine has a history of brain injury.]

Bad science/bad politics: conducting psychology research on St Petersburg police officers without obtaining their informed consent. Manipulation isn't anything new at Harvard.

Harvard psychology professor fabricated, manipulated data
http://www.boston.com/whitecoatnotes...hGP/story.html
"Studies were conducted in factually incorrect ways"

[Unregistered]

Law enforcement agencies want to know if psychologist Brad Duchaine has a history of brain injury.

Why yes, that's a distinct possibility. THEORY: Bradley Craig Duchaine may have cracked (and pickled) his noggin.

http://www.wired.com/2006/11/blind/
Face Blind by Joshua Davis, excerpts
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BRAD DUCHAINE WAS SO LOADED, he didn't realize he was plummeting to the ground. It was his 27th birthday party and the Wisconsin native had been trying to have a good time. He'd had more than a few beers, grappled onto the roof to enjoy the beautiful Santa Barbara, California, sky, and fallen asleep. Now, inexplicably, he was falling. He smashed into the concrete driveway and his hip shattered. Luckily, the beer dulled the pain. He clawed his way to the living room and fell asleep among a few other unconscious revelers. Duchaine had started out enjoying himself too much as an undergrad and nearly flunked out of two colleges. But the fall off the roof two years into his PhD coincided with a crack in his confidence. His dissertation was in shambles. He hadn't been able to find a suitable topic and was playing video games until his thumbs hurt. Did he really think he could succeed as a neuroscientist?

Duchaine had to drive to San Francisco. It wasn't easy for him. He'd been playing too much V8, a car combat video game, and driving on a real freeway now gave him panic attacks. He'd pull over to calm himself down. It took a long time to get there.

Ken Nakayama quickly offered Duchaine a job, and together they formed the Harvard Prosopagnosia Research Center...he was now a rising star.
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[good idea]

Dear Mr. Holloway. I can't say for sure but the buzz is that the lab rats were told to score on the low side to get a good transfer. Low score, no street work, get to eat a ham sandwich behind a desk. To obey or not to obey, that was the question. Should we just follow illegal/unethical orders?

If Holloway-Duchaine-Germine discover that a St. Petersburg police officer has prosopagnosia, does that qualify for a disability pension?

If an officer receives a direct order to participate in a psych research project WITHOUT INFORMED CONSENT, and it results in an anxiety-riddled experience (spelled t-o-r-t), what must the employer do to make the employee whole (spelled c-a-n of w-o-r-m-s)

https://apps.americanbar.org/buslaw/...02/caputo.html
There are SERIOUS LEGAL IMPLICATIONS in administering psychological tests to employees. It is essential that employers thoroughly examine whether testing is appropriate and whether their testing violates the law — otherwise they test at their own peril.

[Unregistered]

Duchaine/Germine/Holloway
Darmouth College, Harvard Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, City of St. Petersburg

[Unregistered]

We're still getting hammered by the c.o.c to take the test before the Nov 6 deadline

[Unregistered]

We're still getting hammered by the c.o.c to take the test before the Nov 6 deadline

Then take the test dumba$$ it takes 10 mins.

[Gyro Gearloose]

In her 2012 Harvard psychology dissertation, Pg vii, Laura Thi Germine who is in cahoots with Brad Duchaine, expressed gratitude to "all the research volunteers that made these experiments possible."
http://www.academia.edu/2794539/Emot...l_Perspectives

I have only 2 quibbles. Uno, it should be "volunteers who" not "volunteers that." Did she catapult from 7th grade English directly to the hallowed halls of Harvard? Dos, she won't be thanking research volunteers from St. Petersburg Police Department because there are no volunteers, only forced participants under direct orders from the chief of police.

In her psychology endeavors, Laura Germine is also researching genetic links. Do you think her own family genealogy would help? RESEARCH BONANAZA! Heeeere's pappy:

Two States Yank Psychiatrist Mark A Germine's Licenses

Pennsylvania Board of Medicine
http://www.dos.pa.gov/ProfessionalLi...May%202013.pdf
Mark Germine, license no. MD442538E, of Morristown, New Jersey, had his Pennsylvania license indefinitely suspended retroactive to October 21, 2012 based upon findings that he is unable to practice with reasonable skill and safety.

Medical Board of California
http://df7s0hkt8o8r9.cloudfront.net/...4B06282013.pdf
Mark Germine drove to work on the morning of April 23, 2009, while under the influence of dangerous drugs, to the extent or in such a manner as to be dangerous or injurious to the public. It is so ordered that Physician's and Surgeon's Certificate No. G73538, heretofore isued to respondent Mark Germine, MD, is revoked. It is so ordered May 30, 2013.

[Unregistered]

Then take the test dumba$$ it takes 10 mins.

Thx for the input. https://www.linkedin.com/pub/sheila-...ham/34/933/a53

A REMINDER TO ALL DUMBA$$ EMPLOYEES
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https://www.testmybrain.org/launch/stpetes.html

[Dartmouthfartmouth]

Office of the Chief of Police, St. Petersburg, Florida
From: Anthony Holloway
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 8:26 AM
To: Police
Subject: Human-to-human facial recognition performance
In an effort to provide the best service possible to citizens of St. Petersburg and to take a leadership role in the law enforcement community, I am proud to announce that we will be attempting to identify if we have any current employees, sworn or civilian, who are exceptionally adept at facial recognition. This is not facial recognition conducted by a computer as used by the Pinellas Sheriff’s Office, but rather a human skill or ability to look at a photo or video of a suspect and successfully match the suspect’s image to a known person in an arrest booking photo. Human-to-human facial recognition performance can be far superior to computer-to-human facial recognition when performed by naturally talented individuals.

To the best of our knowledge, we are the first law enforcement agency in the U.S. to scientifically identify its employees who are most skilled at facial recognition. People who are exceptionally successful at facial recognition are generally called “Super Recognizers” and account for approximately 2% of the population. The use of “Super Recognizers” to assist in solving crimes is a practice used by the London Metropolitan Police in England since 2011. You can read more about them here in this New York Times article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/wo...-the-mind.html

We have teamed up with two of the nation’s premier researchers in this field of study, Dr. Brad Duchaine of Dartmouth College and Dr. Laura Germine of Harvard University, to test all of our employees at no cost. This study has been approved by Dartmouth College’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) known as the Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects (CPHS). To maximize your privacy, your score will not be recorded with, or linked to, your name or payroll and it will not be a public record. The only employees whose scores will be recorded and identified will be those who score exceptionally high on the test, in the top 2% nationally, and are identified as a “Super Recognizer.”

For the test, a series of faces will appear in photographs on your screen for several seconds each in order for you to attempt to memorize them. Afterwards, a second series of photographs will appear intermixing photos of some of the faces you were asked to memorize with faces that are unrelated. You will be asked to simply click a button identifying whether or not you believe you have seen each face before or not. The test takes approximately 15 minutes to complete. Some users may need to click the Internet Explorer “refresh” button if our Internet service gets stuck downloading the initial picture file. The test should be conducted online by clicking the link below:
https://www.testmybrain.org/launch/stpetes.html

All employees, sworn and civilian, are required to take the test via this link by Friday, November 6, 2015. Please call or email Ofc. Robert Lord for questions or assistance at 893-4801 or Robert.Lord@stpete.org.

RE paragraph 2, this part: "This study has been approved by Dartmouth College’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) known as the Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects (CPHS)"

Chief, you left out some important details.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~cphs/tosubmit/faq/
What Are The Responsibilities of Dartmouth College's Researchers?
To conduct research according to ethical principles, federal regulations, and internal procedures.
To ensure participants are informed prior to enrollment.
The consent process must provide potential participants with sufficient information to make informed choices about either beginning or continuing participation in research.

Dartmouth has a program for people to file complaints anonymously, through a 3rd party.
https://secure.ethicspoint.com/domai...378/index.html

[calling all volunteers]

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It's a definite maybe....other state, county, municipal LEOs weighed in. GOTTA LUV LEOAFFAIRS.