NPR ’s Alix Spiegel has writtena must - scan articleabout how a squad of cognitive psychologists work a WWII shipwreck enigma .
Spiegel compose :
In November 1941 , two ships crossed paths off the coast of Australia . One was the German pillager HSK Kormoran . The other : an Australian combat ship called the HMAS Sydney [ pictured up top ] . Guns were fired , the ship were damaged , and both sank to the bottom of the ocean .
The loss of the Sydney in World War II was a interior tragedy for the Australians , particularly because none of the 645 men onboard survive . In the years that followed , there was intense interestingness in finding the wrecks , peculiarly the wreck of the Sydney . The idea was that doing this might give the families of the lose sailors some measure of peace , a horse sense of closedown and sure thing .
The problem was that the only witnesses to the battle and the sinking feeling were about 300 German sailors who had give up their ship after it had been hit . They were eventually picked up by the Australian military .
interrogative technique ultimately proved useless , and both ships stay unexplored for 10 . That is until psychologists Kim Kirsner and John Dunn come up onto the scene in the 1990 ’s to work some scientific magic . By compare the reports made by German survivors with the resultant role of a 1930 ’s experimentation by British psychologist Sir Frederic Bartlett , Kirsner and Dunn were able to pinpoint the speckle they guess the German ship would be get hold . fantastically , the team was right , and a couple of days later the Sydney was discovered , as well .
you may scan about Kirsner and Dunn ’s unbelievable find , and the noted experiment by Bartlett that inspire their investigation , over atNPR .
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