Re: CSI demystified! - CSI

>What do you think about the show (the CSI franchise)?

A: If you keep it in perspective, that at its heart it's *entertainment* -
then in that sense I enjoy it. In terms of the science, it seems fairly
true-to-life most of the time. In terms of the amount of time it takes to
analyze a case, it takes a lot longer and is a lot less glamorous than the
way it's portrayed by the show. Most forensic analysts nowadays are more
specialized than is shown,
but as I said earlier, wide-ranging interest in and knowledge of a variety of
subjects can be a very useful talent. The Journal of Forensic Science is
probably available to you at the university library, and will show you the
wide variety of subjects that the field covers. Nowadays nearly all forensics
people are specialists in one or at most only a few sub-disciplines of the
field.

你對CSI系列的感想是什麼？

若是以娛樂的角度來說的話，我可以從它身上得到享受。以科學的角度來說，
在大部分的時候它都還算寫實。但在真實的情況下，要分析一個案件需要花更
多的時間，而且也不會這麼容光煥發。現今的鑑識人員都比劇中的學有專精，
不過我之前有提到，廣泛的興趣跟知識會是個很有用的才能。你就讀的大學圖
書館裡說不定會有the Journal of Forensic Science。你可以在裡面發現鑑識
工作可以涵蓋的範圍很廣。大部分的鑑識人員都有一樣或是頂多數樣專精的領域。

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