Research Article
May 1981
Accident Investigator Bias Potential
Publication: Transportation Engineering Journal of ASCE
Volume 107, Issue 3
Abstract
Recent and on-going behavioral research suggests a potential for bias on the part of the accident investigator who relies on personal subjective judgment rather than thorough objective analysis. Experience suggests that such bias has the greatest potential for producing accident reconstruction errors; these errors reflect an expected low self-testing investigator behavioral predisposition, one that tends to augment damage, danger and threat. The most obvious ameliorative solution to this problem is extensive objective analysis training (in engineering and basic science) for accident investigators. However, because even engineers exhibit behavioral biases in traffic engineering decisions, such training must be coupled with expressive awareness training.
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Transportation Engineering Journal of ASCE
Volume 107 • Issue 3 • May 1981
Pages: 255 - 262
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© 1981 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: May 1981
Published online: Feb 5, 2021
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John W. Hutchinson
Prof. and Assoc. Chmn., Dept. of Civ. Engrg., Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky. 40506.
John M. Roberts
Andrew W. Mellon Prof. of Anthropology, Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Francesco G. Scorsone
Prof. of Mathematics, Dept. of Mathematics, Eastern Kentucky Univ., Richmond, Ky.
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