Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1914 — Interesting Memory Test. [ARTICLE]

Interesting Memory Test.

Ask anyone to draw a representation of a watch face with Roman numbers and you will have plenty of evidence of the unreliability of incidental memory. Of two hundred persons examined by Myers only eight omitted the VI from their drawing of the watch face, and only twenty-one put 1111 instead of the more familiar notation, IV. From this it would appear that impeachment of a witness because of his inability to report some incidental feature of an event or scene Is not psychologically justified—Case and Comment