Originally Posted by
JW Fas
Fancy that. She decided to de-escalate and no longer incriminate herself the moment she knew she was being filmed.
For those who question whether visible cameras deter poor behavior, it's a well documented phenomenon known as the Observer Effect (or sometimes called Hawthorne Effect).
https://scholarworks.montana.edu/xml...=1&isAllowed=y
Unfortunately, a study, not an argument.
Originally Posted by
JW Fas
Correlating the frequency of violence when police use body cams isn't a blind study and throws far too many variables into the mix to say that the presence of cameras was a factor.
Originally Posted by
JW Fas
A first person anecdote. Not a study, not data.
Originally Posted by
JW Fas
OK. This one at least references studies, but the studies are testing the effects of explicit observation, not the effect of possible observation by unseen cameras.
Originally Posted by JW Fas;22662624[url
https://www.bodycamera.co.uk/blogs/news/what-is-the-observer-effect-and-why-people-act-differently-when-they-are-being-recorded
This is a sales pitch from a company selling body cams.
I appreciate the effort you put into establishing a logic to support your position, but nothing in the links you cite does so in any direct fashion. Bike cameras aren't analagous to body cams on cops or social psychology experiments with a human observer. It wouldn't be that hard to design a study that could test your hypothesis, but if it has been done, I haven't seen a citation.