According to the "one-drop rule" a. anyone who spilled one drop of a white person's blood would be executed. b. anyone who had one drop of american indian blood would be considered american indian, if desired. c. anyone with one known black ancestor was deemed black, regardless of the number or proportion of non-black ancestors. d. any child of the union of a white and a non-white person would be deemed a member of the non-white parent's race.

elizabeth loftus conducted a study to observe the reliability of eyewitnesses during the 1970s. their baseline was to define how accurate are the recollections of eyewitnesses.

her studies do not support the use of eyewitness. loftus mentions in her work that we are not required to recall some experiences, meaning that rarely an individual eyewitness testimony is trustworthy. a good example is presented in her work, where all individuals watched a video and were than asked "about how fast were the cars going when they hit/smash? ". the testimonies changed based on the word she used to make the question (hit or smash), proving the fragility.