Practice question · Multiple choice
Why does Portelli treat a factual error in oral testimony as evidence rather than as grounds for discarding it?
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- Terni residents moved a death four years. What was at the destination?
- Ask what the displacement accurately reports.
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A. A factual error in testimony is a datum about meaning, not a disqualification
Why
The community relocated a killing into the layoffs because that is where it meant the most. The date is wrong; the testimony is accurate about what the death came to mean, and that is a question no document can answer.
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