MM Racing Chapter 3033 Mercury Notes (9)
Chapter 3033 Mercury Notes (9)
Chapter 3033 Mercury Record (XIX)
Bruce felt depressed.
At 3:30 in the morning, he suddenly sat up from his bed, walked to the refrigerator in the living room of his dormitory suite, took a bottle of beer, and sat by the window to watch the sun.
Because Mercury is very close to the sun, the sun can be seen from the windows of almost all the rooms here. The glass is made of special processed material that allows people to look directly at this surging fireball. Watching all kinds of mysterious patterns slowly bloom before their eyes will also make people feel relaxed.
But Bruce was not in a good mood at the moment. After drinking a bottle of beer by the window, he sat down at his desk and began to read Jenna's paper.
If you want to say whether what she wrote is correct or not, the accuracy rate cannot be said to be 100%, but it is at least 90%. But if you want to say whether what she wrote is good or not, it can basically be called a mess.
Many times, 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 both correctly and badly.
Specifically, in the argument of a case, her results and starting points were correct. She was able to analyze why the victim died, analyze the murderer's motive, and accurately find out who the murderer was, but the process in between was all fabricated.
Normally, reasoning is linear. Even if some cases have more lines and require more human and physical evidence to search for, they are still done step by step.
Inferring the class of the person holding a piece of physical evidence from the material of the evidence, then looking for possible groups within this class, and then excluding other individuals in the group, and finally locking in a few suspects, is an indispensable process in modern criminal investigation.
But Jenna's reasoning process was jumpy. When she got the material, she directly locked on the suspects. When asked why, she said that these people were the kind of people who would use this physical evidence.
Is her judgment correct? Of course, she is very accurate in almost every case, even far beyond the scope of suspects that can be inferred from the physical evidence.
But looking back at her reasoning process, it just doesn't make sense.
Because the class time was compressed so much, Bruce entered the case analysis stage within a few days.
Bruce deliberately found a very obscure case, a murder case in Gotham decades ago. Apart from some scattered information in the confidential database of the Gotham Police Department, basically no one knew any information, and it was impossible for Jenna to find out who the murderer was on the Internet or other places.
The important evidence in this case is a handkerchief. Theoretically speaking, by observing the picture of the handkerchief, we can basically conclude that the material of the handkerchief is high-end imported silk, and the embroidery on it is also very exquisite. Through investigation, we can know that handkerchiefs made of this material are very troublesome to maintain, and even if the hands are not delicate enough, they may be scratched.
From this we can infer that the person who owns this handkerchief is either rich or noble, because if a lower-class person stole the handkerchief, the calluses on his hands might have caused damage to the handkerchief. However, the handkerchief in the photo appears to be in very good condition, and it is obvious that it has been carefully maintained, so it is almost impossible that its previous owner was a poor person.
Except for Jenna, everyone else Bruce found inferred that the person who owned the handkerchief should be a lady from upper society, and they all began to look for suspicious persons among the women of Gotham's twelve families.
But Jenna happened to lock on a male hairdresser. The moment she saw the advertisement of the barber shop owned by the male hairdresser, she identified him as the most likely owner of the handkerchief and the suspect of the crime.
It turned out, of course, 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 traits of the barber shop owner in the posters of the barber shop, and thought that they were completely consistent with the temperament of the handkerchief owner, so she inferred that he was a suspect.
This statement will not convince anyone at all, because that's not how normal people think.
When most people see a handkerchief made of light pink silk and embroidered with grape vine patterns, they would most likely think of women, wealthy people, and those obsessed with hand care.
This is not a stereotype, but a rigorous reasoning based on the context of the times.
The case happened several decades ago, when there were basically no avant-garde ideas and the thinking of the rich was very conservative. They would basically not use things that did not match their identity or went beyond the class framework. Men's and women's dresses and jewelry could be considered standard equipment, and almost everyone in this group used the same.
It would be normal for people to first check among the female population, because 99.9% of these handkerchiefs are used by women. In the absence of any other evidence, it should be prioritized to check among the female population.
But here Jenna's thoughts jumped, and she thought the handkerchief belonged to a man.
Bruce asked her to produce evidence, and in order to comply with the behavioral analysis process, Jenna started to make up stories.
As I said earlier, in mythology, grapes are usually associated with the blood left by Jesus, so choosing a grape vine pattern actually implies that the other person is a male like Jesus.
Then he said that grapes bear a lot of fruits, which represents strong fertility and is a kind of reproductive worship that is biased towards males, so the person who used this pattern is most likely a male.
It is even said that the silk production process is like a person combing hair, and the feel is like smooth hair, so it can be inferred that the other person's job is likely to deal with hair.
The most troublesome thing is that you can’t say that what Jenner said is completely unreasonable. The points she made do exist.
In Western culture, wine is often used to represent the blood of Jesus. In Eastern culture, grapes also symbolize fertility and good fortune. It cannot be said that this is not a fertility worship. The similarity between silk and hair in terms of their softness, although a bit far-fetched, cannot be said to be completely different.
But all these inference processes give people the feeling of forcing the answer.
But precisely because her answer was correct, everything she said made sense, and then the students below suddenly realized something and acted as if to say “Why didn’t I think of that?”
Then at this time, when Bruce comes out and talks about the normal inference of behavioral analysis, people will think that you are beating around the bush.
The evidence of male reproductive worship that people talk about is also very reasonable. Why do we have to check women first? Isn't this just a deliberate waste of time?
Some even think that what Bruce said is too old-fashioned. Solving cases obviously requires inspiration, and only people like this can become great detectives. The method of eliminating suspects step by step is inflexible, pedantic and backward.
But Bruce was so angry that he almost died.
Jenna's move basically ruined Bruce's entire class, because the students then split into two factions and started arguing about who was right.
The logic school thought Jenna's reasoning was illogical, but the inspiration school thought Jenna's reasoning was correct, and said that the logic school wasted too much time. Then the logic school asked, "Can you be right every time?" Jenna was right every time, and the inspiration school could laugh at the logic school.
Neither side gave in, and the argument turned into a fight. More importantly, race and gender were involved.
In order to suppress the arrogance of the inspiration faction, some people said something like women's logic is weaker. It was not so direct, but the meaning was similar. They were saying that Jenner was not rational enough, which made the girls at Amazon angry.
Then some people started saying that Jenna was an alien. Maybe she could read minds and read the answers directly in the teacher's mind. She was deliberately interfering with the studies of these earthlings. Then other aliens or races other than humans also began to feel dissatisfied.
In the end, the parties came to a complete standoff. During today's daytime class, Bruce had to invite both Clark and Diana to come over to barely stop the students' dispute.
Both sides asked Bruce to give them an explanation and let Bruce be the judge to decide which side was right.
Although Bruce is good at behavioral analysis, he still told his students according to the definition in the book that psychology itself is divided into two schools: behavioral analysis and psychoanalysis. Some people prefer behavioral analysis, while others prefer psychoanalysis. Jenna is the latter.
Of course, some people will ask, what is the principle of psychoanalysis? Is it possible that some people's brains are different from others, so they can guess the murderer out of thin air? Why did God create people's brains differently?
The problem returns to the realm of theology.
Bruce speaks very fluently about behavioral analysis, but he can't explain psychoanalysis clearly if you ask him to do so. Apart from the definition in the book, he has nothing else to say.
Because in fact, he also felt from the bottom of his heart that psychoanalysis was theology, which meant that God had opened an extra groove in some people's brains.
But you cannot say these words to students. If you tell them that some people are born with the ability to guess right, then what is the meaning of learning?
Although everyone knows that there are differences in talents between people, the gap between humans and aliens is even greater. Jenna is not that strong, but she can easily do 600 push-ups. No strong human guy can compare to her.
However, the difference in physical talents is intuitive, while the difference in IQ is not very obvious. This is why those mentally retarded people who can barely take care of themselves in life are not easily discovered, because there is no specific instrument to measure it, and it cannot reach the level of making people cry when seeing the coffin, so of course everyone assumes that everyone is the same.
Moreover, when one is in a weak position, no one is willing to admit it, even ordinary people. How many people are willing to admit that they have a low IQ?
Everyone here is a chosen one, at least they are all top-notch in their own groups. Who would be willing to admit that they are not as good as others?
But the fact that one has a talent for psychoanalysis is really hard to explain. Without having seen it with one’s own eyes, no one can imagine how mysterious it is.
Bruce has seen more miracles from Schiller. Just as Schiller admitted that Bruce really could not learn psychoanalysis, Bruce had also long admitted that the talent for psychoanalysis does exist. It is not a coincidence that he can always guess right. It is a talent that can truly support an entire school of psychology.
But even if he knew, he couldn't just tell the students, as it would really dampen the enthusiasm of 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 watching Jenna's nonsense for a long time at the table, Bruce chose to put down the paper and went to the refrigerator to get a bottle of beer.