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Do you have what it takes to be a forensic fingerprint examiner?
Posted: Thu May 18, 2017 10:56 am
by josher89
Re: Do you have what it takes to be a forensic fingerprint examiner?
Posted: Thu May 18, 2017 11:04 am
by josher89
I got a 75%...
https://www.nist.gov/node/1203696/quiz- ... /1981/view
Don't look unless you take the test first! The first two images were shown at the IPES 2012 in Tampa from Dr. Dror. I don't know if they were his images or ones he found but I can clearly state that it's a good thing ridges are flexible and that we aren't looking for exactness in latent comparisons.
Re: Do you have what it takes to be a forensic fingerprint examiner?
Posted: Thu May 18, 2017 1:02 pm
by Bill Schade
Might be time to retire
I got 50%
but I finished it in Record time and didn't have any erroneous exclusions or inconclusives
Re: Do you have what it takes to be a forensic fingerprint examiner?
Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 12:56 pm
by Alan C
I got 75% and my two wrong answers were really close calls.
Re: Do you have what it takes to be a forensic fingerprint examiner?
Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 6:04 pm
by Dr. Borracho
I'm betting the Latent Print Examiners who failed to get 100% missed the first two. Those look like they come from Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices Test which, by the way, Bill Byford of Greater Manchester Police in England recommended as a pre-employment test for prospective latent print examiners a quarter century ago. The other four drawings, of course, are Dr. Dror's.
It would be nice to have a pre-employement test for latent print examiner applicants that was validated as a predictor of ability at the job five years after the date of hire. This may well be on the road to such a test.
But lose the first two questions. Or include a "close" score for folks like those of us who chose an adjacent line.