Chapter 3059 Mercury Notes (19)

Chapter 3033 Mercury Notes (XIX)

Bruce felt very depressed.

At 3:30 in the morning, he suddenly sat up from the bed, walked to the refrigerator in the living room of the dormitory suite, took a bottle of beer, and sat in front of the window to look at the sun.

Because Mercury is very close to the sun, the windows of all the rooms here can basically see the sun. The glass is a special material that has been processed, allowing people to look directly at this surging fireball, and watching all kinds of mysterious patterns slowly blooming in front of their eyes will also make people feel happy.

But Bruce is not in a good mood now. After drinking a bottle of beer by the window, he sat at his desk and started to read Jenna's paper.

If you want to say whether she wrote it right or not, the accuracy rate cannot be said to be 100%, but at least 90%, but if you want to say whether she wrote it well or not, it can basically be called a mess.

In many cases, right and good should be related. As long as the knowledge can be written correctly, even if it is not excellent, it has nothing to do with bad, but Jenna can write it right and badly.

Specifically, in the argument of a case, her results and starting points are correct. She can analyze why the victim died, analyze the motive of the murderer, and accurately find out who the murderer is, but the process in between is all fabricated.

Normally, reasoning is linear. Even if some cases have more lines and need to search for more human and physical evidence, they are still done step by step.

From the material of a certain physical evidence, it is necessary to infer the class of the person who holds the physical evidence, and then find possible groups in this class, and then exclude other individuals in the group, and finally lock in several suspects. This is an indispensable process in modern criminal investigation.

But Jenna's reasoning process is jumpy. When she got the material, she directly locked in the suspects. When asked why, she said that these people are the kind of people who would use this physical evidence.

Is her judgment correct? Of course, basically every time she locked in, it was very accurate, even far beyond the range of suspects that could be inferred from this physical evidence.

But looking back on her reasoning process, it is completely unreasonable.

Because the class time was compressed quite a lot, Bruce entered the stage of case analysis in a few days.

Bruce deliberately found a very unconventional case, a murder case in Gotham decades ago. Apart from sporadic information in the confidential database of the Gotham Police Department, basically no one knew any information, and Jenna could not find out who the murderer was on the Internet or anywhere else.

The important evidence in this case was a handkerchief. Theoretically, by observing the picture of the handkerchief, it can be basically determined that the material of the handkerchief is high-end imported silk, and the embroidery on it is also very exquisite. Through investigation, it can be known that handkerchiefs of this material are very troublesome to maintain, even if the hands are not delicate enough, they may scratch the silk.

From this, it can be inferred that the person who owns this handkerchief is either rich or noble, because if the lower-class people steal the handkerchief, the calluses on their hands may cause damage to the handkerchief. The handkerchief in the photo is very intact, and it can be seen that it has been carefully maintained, so its previous owner is almost impossible to be poor.

Except for Jenna, everyone else Bruce found inferred that the person who owns this handkerchief should be a lady of the upper class, and they all began to look for suspicious objects among the women of the twelve families in Gotham.

But Jenna locked on a male hairdresser, and the moment she saw the GG of the barbershop owned by the male hairdresser, she locked him as the most likely owner of the handkerchief and the suspect of the crime.

The result, of course, was that she was right.

When Bruce asked her to report her reasoning process, she just said that the person who owned the handkerchief must be a male mysophobia patient and a homosexual. She saw some homosexual and psychopathic characteristics of the owner of the barbershop from the posters of the barbershop, and thought that they were completely consistent with the temperament of the owner of the handkerchief, so she inferred that he was a suspect.

This statement can't convince anyone at all, because normal people's brain circuits are not like this.

When ordinary people see a handkerchief made of light pink silk and embroidered with grape vine patterns, most of them will think of women, rich people, and people obsessed with hand care.

This is not a stereotype, but a rigorous reasoning combined with the background of the times.

The case happened decades ago. There was basically no avant-garde thinking at that time. The thinking of the rich was also very conservative. They would not use things that did not match their status or exceeded the class framework. The dresses and jewelry of men and women could be regarded as standard equipment. Almost everyone in this group used the same.

Then it would be a normal idea to first check among the female group, because 99.9% of this kind of handkerchief is used by women. In the absence of any other evidence, it should be checked among the female group first.

But here Jenna's thinking jumped, and she thought that this handkerchief belonged to a man.

Bruce asked her to produce evidence, and in order to comply with the process of behavioral analysis, Jenna began to make up stories.

One moment, she said that in mythology, grapes are usually associated with the blood left by Jesus, so choosing the grapevine pattern really implies that the other party is a man like Jesus.

Another moment, she said that grapes bear a lot of fruits, which represents strong fertility and is a kind of reproductive worship that is biased towards men, so the person who uses this pattern is very likely to be a man.

It is even said that the production process of silk is like combing hair, and the feel is like smooth hair, so it can be inferred that the other party's job is likely to deal with hair.

The most troublesome thing is that you can't say that what Jenna said is completely unreasonable, and the points she said are indeed true.

In Western culture, wine is indeed often used to refer to the blood of Jesus, and grapes also have the meaning of many children and blessings in Eastern culture, so it can't be said that it is not fertility worship. The similarity between silk and hair is also smooth, although it is a bit far-fetched, you can't say that it is completely different.

But all these inference processes give people a feeling of forcing the answer.

But just because her answer is right, everything she says makes sense, and then the students below suddenly realize it and make a look of "Why didn't I think of it".

Then at this time, Bruce comes out to talk about the inference of normal behavioral analysis, and people will think, aren't you beating around the bush?

The evidence of male fertility worship that people said is also reasonable, why do you have to check women first? Isn't this deliberately delaying time?

Some even thought that what Bruce said was too old-fashioned. It was obvious that inspiration was needed to solve a case. Only such people could become great detectives. The method of eliminating suspects step by step was inflexible and backward.

Bruce was furious.

Jenna's behavior basically ruined Bruce's class, because the students would split into two groups and start arguing about who was right.

The logic group thought Jenna's inference was illogical, but the inspiration group thought Jenna's inference was correct. On the contrary, they said that the logic group was too time-consuming. Then the logic group asked, can you be right every time? As a result, Jenna was right every time, and the inspiration group could laugh at the logic group in turn.

The two sides refused to give in, and the quarrel turned into a fight. More importantly, race and gender were also involved.

In order to suppress the arrogance of the inspiration school, some people said something like women's logic is weaker. It was not so direct, but the meaning was similar. They said that Jenna was not rational enough, which made the Amazon girls angry.

Then someone started to say that Jenna was an alien. Maybe she could read minds and read the answers in the teacher's mind directly. She deliberately interfered with the study of these earthlings. Then other aliens or races other than humans began to be dissatisfied.

In the end, the parties were completely in a mess. In the daytime class today, Bruce had to invite Clark and Diana to come over to barely stop the students' dispute.

Both parties asked Bruce to give them an explanation and let Bruce be the judge to say which side was right.

Although Bruce was good at behavioral analysis, he still told the students according to the definition in the book that psychology itself was divided into two schools: behavioral analysis and psychoanalysis. Some people were more inclined to behavioral analysis, and some were more inclined to psychoanalysis. Jenna was the latter.

Of course, someone will ask, what is the principle of psychoanalysis? Is it possible that some people's brains are different from others and can guess the murderer out of thin air? Why did God make people's brains different?

The question returns to the category of theology.

Bruce talks about behavioral analysis, which is very reasonable, but if you ask him to explain psychoanalysis, he can't explain it clearly. Apart from the definition in the book, he has nothing else to say.

Because in fact, he also thinks from the bottom of his heart that psychoanalysis is theology, that is, God has opened an extra groove in some people's brains.

But these words cannot be said to students. You tell them that some people are born to guess accurately, so what is the meaning of learning?

Although everyone knows that there is a gap in talent between people, the gap between humans and aliens is even greater. Jenna is not very strong, but she can do 600 push-ups casually. Strong human guys can never compare to her.

However, the difference in physical talent is intuitive, while the difference in IQ is very subtle. This is why those mentally retarded people who can barely take care of themselves in life are not easy to be discovered, because there is no instrument that can specifically measure this thing, and it cannot reach the level of making people cry when seeing the coffin, so everyone naturally assumes that everyone is the same.

And when they are in a disadvantaged position, no one is willing to admit it, even ordinary people, how many people are willing to admit that they have a low IQ?

Now everyone here is a child of destiny, at least in their own group, they are all top-notch, who is willing to admit that they are not as good as others?

But the fact of psychoanalytic talent is really hard to say. Without seeing it with your own eyes, no one can imagine how mysterious it can be.

Bruce has seen more miracles in Schiller. Just like Schiller admitted that Bruce really couldn't learn psychoanalysis, Bruce had long admitted that psychoanalytic talent does exist. It is not a coincidence to guess one accurately, but a talent that can truly support a school of psychology.

But even if he knew, he couldn't just tell the students like this, which would really discourage some people.

You have worked hard for a long time to make inferences, and every step is very rigorous and reliable, but in the end the inference is wrong, and the other party can accurately tell who the murderer is by just looking at the evidence photos or the crime scene photos. Then what is the point of learning?

After sitting at the table and watching Jenna's nonsense for a long time, Bruce chose to put down his paper and went to the refrigerator to get a bottle of beer.