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Table 5 Counts and proportions for each decision category of the identification procedures

From: Testing encoding specificity and the diagnostic feature-detection theory of eyewitness identification, with implications for showups, lineups, and partially disguised perpetrators

Encoded

Tested

Identification

Target-present

Target-absent

Face

Face(s)

Procedure

Correct ID rate

Filler ID rate

Rejection rate

False ID rate

Filler ID rate

Rejection rate

Full

Full

Showup

.75 (929/1234)

 

.25 (305/1234)

.23 (275/1208)

 

.77 (933/1208)

  

Lineup

.65 (793/1213)

.19 (236/1213)

.15 (184/1213)

.10 (123/1197)

.33 (392/1197)

.57 (682/1197)

 

Internal

Showup

.47 (568/1203)

 

.53 (635/1203)

.18 (216/1209)

 

.82 (993/1209)

  

Lineup

.44 (531/1218)

.25 (302/1218)

.32 (385/1218)

.13 (153/1213)

.40 (487/1213)

.47 (573/1213)

Internal

Full

Showup

.50 (615/1225)

 

.50 (610/1225)

.23 (284/1214)

 

.77 (930/1214)

  

Lineup

.42 (511/1228)

.28 (344/1228)

.30 (373/1228)

.10 (121/1222)

.45 (550/1222)

.45 (551/1222)

 

Internal

Showup

.60 (736/1219)

 

.40 (483/1219)

.22 (266/1209)

 

.78 (943/1209)

  

Lineup

.46 (556/1201)

.30 (365/1201)

.23 (280/1201)

.12 (140/1201)

.42 (502/1201)

.47 (559/1201)

  1. ID = Identification; Internal = internal region of the face only. Some proportions do not add up to 1.0 due to rounding error