title: Eliminating ill-founded eliminations in handwriting comparison cases.
abstract: Document examiners sometimes eliminate writers on the basis of differences which are given too much weight. This article is an attempt to explain some conditions whereby differences in the writing of one individual are misinterpreted as significant differences, when they are actually caused by conditions which are unknown to the examiner.
authors.affiliation: US Secret Service, Washington, DC 20223.
authors.forename: T V
authors.initials: TV
authors.lastname: McAlexander
authors.forename: K B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Maguire
mesh_terms: D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D006236:Handwriting; D006801:Humans