he and his friends searching. how accurate is eyewitness testimony? how science shows our memories and powers of perception are far less reliable than we believe. a whole host of factors that influence what we see from stress to time, even suggestibility. in fact, psychologist has been able to recreate what the impact of distance is. for example, if you were standing about 50 feet away from me, this is what i would look like. at 100 feet, though, i would look something like this. at 200 feet like this. you get the idea here. 400 feet i m pretty much unidentifiable. even when we re up close, our minds aren t always as perspective as we think they are. we set up an experiment at the cnn center with my good friend and colleague elizabeth cohen getting ready to tape a story in the food court. in the middle there s an interruption. when we asked bystanders what they noticed, it surprised us what they saw. the woman looked a little upset. she had like a red colored looking dr