what is bottom up approaches
use examination of the ridges and patterns of the fingerprints without knowing anything else
whats top down approaches
use the experts previous experience and knowledge to make an assumption about the identity of the fingerprints
conclusions?
top down appraoches is more open to mistakes from the experts personality, emotiona state and exceptations
whats false identifaction
2004- a number of different experts identified mayfields fingerprints on a bag