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Leon
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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 5:04 am Post subject: |
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"The limited court oversight and lack of uniform standards leave vast discrepancies in the skills of dog-and-officer teams, experts agreed.
Dog handlers can accidentally cue alerts from their dogs by leading them too slowly or too many times around a vehicle, said Lawrence Myers, an Auburn University professor who studies detector dogs. Myers pointed to the "Clever Hans" phenomenon in the early 1900s, named after a horse whose owner claimed the animal could read and do math before a psychologist determined the horse was actually responding to his master's unwitting cues.
Training is the key to eliminating accidental cues and false alerts, said Paul Waggoner of Auburn's detector-dog research program.
"Is there a potential for handlers to cue these dogs to alert?" he asked. "The answer is a big, resounding yes."
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-01-06/news/ct-met-canine-officers-20110105_1_drug-sniffing-dogs-alex-rothacker-drug-dog/2
It's not the dogs, but the handlers. |
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Captain Corea

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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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Leon wrote: |
It's not the dogs, but the handlers. |
The more I watch the Dog Whisperer, the more I agree.  |
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Lucas
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