Can Polygraph tests themselves be said to be fair and accurate and a sound basis of conviction or non conviction in criminal law cases ? You be the judge.
Ruminations - Lutte contre l'injustice: So called "Lie Detector" tests - Polygraph Accuracy - Almost a century of research in scientific psychology and physiology provides little basis for the expectation that a polygraph test could have extremely high accuracy. The theoretical rationale for the polygraph is ...
Simple Test Improves Accuracy of Polygraph Results (11/29/2007) - In order to prevent false positive results in polygraph examinations, testing is set to err on the side of caution. This protects the innocent, but increases the chances that a guilty suspect will go unidentified.
New Jersey Thinks Again about the Polygraph Test - Ed.2d 413, 419-21 (1998) (reviewing scientific studies showing that accuracy of polygraph tests ranges from 50 to more than 90 percent)). Some studies suggest that the accuracy rate is "little better than could be obtained by the toss ...
Polygraph Procedure - Probably going to use countermeasures, but I ... - You said in a previous post “It seems that of the two people involved in the polygraph exam, only the examinee knows for sure if the results are accurate or inaccurate. “ While I disagree that at the conclusion of the test only the ...
Is a polygraph test the answer? - relationship advice - A male reader, anonymous, writes (30 April 2009): Might want to Google "polygraph test" to find out about accuracy and if you can cheat while taking them. 1; 2; 3; 4; 5. <-- Rate this answer ............................... A female ...
Lie Detectors, Sex Offenders And Benefit Cheats - Presumably if they already knew that people were benefit cheats there would be no need to run the polygraph test in the first place, so “benefit claimants face lie detector” test is more accurate. And the voice-stress analysis test ...
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Did you know:
- The consensus view among scientists is that polygraph testing has no scientific basis?
- The FBI considered the creator of the lie detector test to be a phony and a crackpot?
- The man who started the CIA's polygraph program thinks that plants can read human thoughts?
- The foremost polygraph advocate in academia was discredited by a federal judge?
- A prominent past-president of the American Polygraph Association is a phony Ph.D., and this premier polygraph organization doesn't consider it an ethics problem?
- The longest polygraph school produces newly minted polygraphers in just 14 weeks -- less than half the time it takes to graduate from a typical barber college?
- The Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment (the erstwhile DoD Polygraph Institute) suppressed a study suggesting that innocent blacks are more likely to fail the polygraph than innocent whites?
- The researcher who developed the U.S. Government's polygraph Test for Espionage and Sabotage "thought the whole security screening program should be shut down?"
- The National Academy of Sciences concluded that "[polygraph testing's] accuracy in distinguishing actual or potential security violators from innocent test takers is insufficient to justify reliance on its use in employee security screening in federal agencies?"
- Spies Ignatz Theodor Griebl, Karel Frantisek Koecher, Jiri Pasovsky, Larry Wu-tai Chin, Aldrich Hazen Ames, Ana Belen Montes, and Leandro Aragoncillo all passed the polygraph?
- One of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history passed the polygraph and killed again?
- Al-Qaeda and Iraqi insurgents know full well that the lie detector is bogus?
- You don't have to be a psychopath, go to spy school, or somehow believe your own lies to fool the polygraph? (We'll reveal how it's done and accomplished
source: http://antipolygraph.org/
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