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The act of a victim comparing one person to another in a lineup, then pointing to one person in the lineup who most closely resembles the offender, whether the person actually is the offender is not, is known as which type of threat to accuracy identification?

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Answer:selection

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Selection occurs when subjects who may be unrelated but have similar variables or factors and because of those similar features each oneauve be mistake for the other one.

A person may recognise someone as familiar only because the person their are familiar with Also has the same hair cut and shape of the head or even their height is the same as a result of these similar features the one may be mistaken for the other.

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