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The Lie Detector Test - How Accurate? |
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How accurate is the lie detector test? The answer to that depends on who you ask. Various studies show results all over the board. In a recent Department of Defense Polygraph Institute study, one experiment found that less than 37% of test takers who were non-deceptive were classified as such. The remainder were either classified as "deceptive" (false-positives) or "inconclusive." (And people think a polygraph will "prove" their innnocence?)The American Polygraph Association says on their web site that the problem of accuracy is one of differing methods of measuring it. Critics, they say, "who often don't understand polygraph testing, classify inconclusive test results as errors." This isn't an error, they say, but I imagine that if you are accused of murder, and you are innocent, you might want a more accurate result from a polygraph test than "inconclusive." (Interestingly, they will not call it a lie detector test, even though detecting lies is what it is supposed to accomplish.) |
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Caring And Being Considerate |
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A woman entered a mans shop and was looking around. This woman let out wind and was extremely embarassed, but the man pretended he had not heard. When she asked him the prices of some of the items he was selling he would ask her to repeat, so that she felt he had maybe not heard her pass wind. |
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