film, they asked different groups a series of questions about the accident they had just seen. When asked how fast the cars appeared to be going when the accident occurred, the answers varied based on how the question was asked. The people who were asked how fast were they going when they smashed into each other estimated the speed much faster than the participants who were asked how fast the cars were going when they bumped into each other. (Buskit and Carlson, 261) Another interesting finding was the people that were asked questions with the word "smashed" later stated they remembered seeing broken glass when in fact there wasn't any in the film. (Coon, 246) In a similar study, after showing a film of an accident where there was no broken headlight, some participants were asked is they saw a broken headlight and some were asked if they say the broken headlight. Twice as many people who heard "the" in the question answered yes (Buskit and Carlson, 261). These studies proved to Loftus that how the questions w
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