* Perception: What someone sees and remembers can be affected by their own biases, expectations, and attention.
* Memory: Eyewitness accounts can be distorted or forgotten over time.
* Communication: Eyewitnesses may have difficulty accurately describing what they saw.
* On the other hand, accounts of events that are recorded in writing or on video are less likely to be influenced by these factors.
* Written and video records:
- provide a more objective and accurate record of events.
- Are less likely to be distorted or forgotten over time.
* For these reasons, it is generally more reliable to put more trust in accounts of events that are recorded in writing or on video than in eyewitness accounts.